He ordered and strictly enforced that all Tongans become Christian and no longer practise the ancient polytheistic religion with its supreme god Tangaloa.
[2][page needed] Pulotu was the unseen world, the domain of the god or goddess Hikule'o believed to be reached by sea.
Long ago, it was believed that Pulotu could be visited by a man to recover a dead wife.
Ahole was the opening from which Maui Kisikisi brought fire from the underworld to this world.
Tangaloa Tufunga, though said not to be a god in Niuatoputapu, is the patron of carpenters elsewhere in Tonga.