'Ilaheva

In the mythology of Tonga, Template:OkinaIlaheva VaTemplate:Okinaepopua (Template:OkinaIlaheva, living at [[Popua FC|VaTemplate:Okinaepopua]]) was a mortal woman, the daughter of [[Seketo'a|SeketoTemplate:Okinaa]]. Seketo'a was either a chief of Tongatapu, or perhaps a god from Niuatoputapu, depending on the source. All accounts, however, agree that 'Ilaheva became the wife of Tangaloa and mother of ʻAhoʻeitu,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the first divine king of the Tuʻi Tonga dynasty in Tonga, around 900 AD.

Further reading

• R.D. Craig, Dictionary of Polynesian Mythology (Greenwood Press: New York, 1989), 82;
• E.T. Gifford, Tongan Myths and Tales (Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum Press, 1924), 25–8.

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