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((distinguish|Religion in Tonga))
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Though it is no longer practised today, [[Tonga]]'s ancient religion was practised for over 2,000 years. [[Christian mission|Missionaries]] arrived and persuaded King [[George Tupou I]] to convert to [[Christianity]]; he ordered and strictly enforced that all Tongans become Christian and no longer practise the ancient [[Polytheism|polytheistic religion]] with its supreme god [[Tangaloa]].<ref>((cite journal|publisher=Bernice P. Bishop Museum|journal=Bulletin|volume=61|year=1929|title=Tongan society|last=Gifford|first=E. W.|url=http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/bpbm-bulletins.html))</ref>

==Pulotu==
[[Pulotu]] was the unseen world, the domain of the god or goddess [[Hikule'o]] believed to be reached by sea. Stories told of journeys to Pulotu. Tongans identify Pulotu with the underworld, ''Lolofonua''. Pulotu is also identified with the cemetery or graveyard. Long ago, it was believed that Pulotu could be visited by a man to recover a dead wife. Hikule'o would assemble the spirits so the wife could be found, reanimated and released.

Two entrances are pointed out by Tongans. One is ''Ahole'' a deep hole on the island of Koloa, [[Vava'u]]. Ahole was the opening from which ''Maui Kisikisi'' brought fire from the underworld to this world. The second opening was through the island of [[Tofua]]. There are three divisions of Pulotu called ''Pulotu Tete'', ''Pulotu 'Aka'aka'', and ''Pulotu Tu'uma'u''.

==Gods and deities==
===Tangaloa===
[[Tangaloa]], the sky god, was regarded in Vava'u as the deity who hauled up the islands of the Vava'u group, his [[fish hook]] catching in what is now the island of ''Hunga''. The Vava'u people attributed this great act to Tangaloa instead of [[Maui (Tongan mythology)|Maui]] due to the importance of Tangaloa worship in Vava'u. ''Tangaloa Tufunga'', though said not to be a god in [[Niuatoputapu]], is the patron of carpenters elsewhere in Tonga.

===Maui===
The ''Maui'' were special men or demigods; they appeared human. Maui drew up the islands of Atata, north of [[Tongatapu]], as well as [[Tongatapu]] with all its associated islands, then [[Lofanga]] and the other [[Ha'apai]] islands, and lastly the [[Vava'u]].

==See also==
* [[Religion in Tonga]]

==References==
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((Polynesian mythology))
((Religion topics|ancient))
((Paganism))

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