Ta'aroa is the supreme creator god in the mythology of the Society Islands of French Polynesia.
He waited alone in his shell,[3] which appeared as an egg spinning in the empty endless void of the time before the sky, before the Earth, before the Moon, before the Sun, before the stars.
So he broke the shell into pieces and from them formed the rocks and the sand, and the foundation of all the world, Tumu-Nui.
With his backbone he created the mountains; with his tears he filled the oceans, the lakes, the rivers; with his fingernails and toenails he made the scales that cover the fish and the turtles; with his feathers he created the trees and the bushes; with his blood he colored the rainbow.
On the bottommost level lived man, and he multiplied quickly, which delighted Ta'aroa.