TANGAROA The Polynesian god of fish and reptiles, Tangaroa oncesailed to the island of Faumea, who was a woman who had eels in her vagina thatkilled men, but which Tangaroa had learned to entice outside. The sea god married herand had two children. When one of them was surfing, the demon octopus Rogo-tumu-here seized her and dragged her to the bottom of the ocean. On a hook baited withsacred feathers Tangaroa drew up the octopus to the surface, hacked off tentacleafter tentacle, then finally the monstrous head.