In the Polynesian mythology of Tonga, Laufakanaʻa (speak to silence; i.e.: command [the winds] to calm down) was a primordial creator god, and his home was ʻAta.
In Tongan cosmogony, the sky and the sea, and the land of Pulotu (the dark underworld, the home of the souls of departed chiefs) existed from the earliest times.
The first people of ʻAta came forth directly from the same uanga (fly larva, maggot) as Kohai, Koau, mo Momo, and were the ancestors of all other men.
Whenever a boat came to ʻAta in stormy weather, Laufakanaʻa had to listen to the prayers of the crew and give them a good wind to sail on.
As well, the putalinga (a kind of plantain), the sī (ti (plant)), the ngū-ʻata and tua-ʻata yams were brought down from the sky by Laufakanaʻa and first grew on ʻAta, before they spread to the other islands.