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Pōmare I
Painting of Pōmare I by John Webber
King of Tahiti
Reign1788 – 13 February 1791
PredecessorNew creation
SuccessorPōmare II
BornTu-nui-ea’a-i-te-Atua-i-Tarahoi Vaira’atoa Taina
c. 1753
Pare, Tahiti
DiedDecember 3, 1803
Matavai, Tahiti
Burial
Pōmare Royal Cemetery, Papaʻoa, ʻArue
SpouseTu-ra’i-Ari’i Te-ra’i-mano
Tetua-nui-rei-a-ite Ra’iatea-i-Nu’urua
Pateamai Vairareti Teano
Pepiri (junior wife)
IssuePōmare II
Teri’i Tapa-nui Vehiatua V
Te Ari’i-na-vaho-roa
A son
A daughter
HouseHouse of Pōmare
FatherTeu Tunuieaite Atua
MotherTetupaia-i-Hauiri
ReligionTahitian

Pōmare I (c. 1753 – September 3, 1803) (fully in old orthography: Tu-nui-ea-i-te-atua-i-Tarahoi Vaira'atoa Taina Pōmare I; also known as Tu or Tinah or Outu), was the unifier and first king of Tahiti and founder of the Pōmare dynasty and the Kingdom of Tahiti between 1788 and 1791.[1]

Name

Outu is the phonetic English rendering of ʻO Tū, Tū being the name, ʻo the nominal predicate meaning that is. Older literature writes his family name as Tunuieaiteatua, which leaves incertainties about the proper pronunciation as Tahitian usually did (and does) not write macrons and glottals. Barring this incertainty, in the current proper orthography would be Tū-nui-ʻēʻa-i-te-atua meaning Great-Tū,-road-to-the-god. Tū (standing straight up) was a major Tahitian god.

Ariʻitaimai claims that this Tū is a contraction of atua (god), but that is unlikely. The name Pōmare was adopted later. Pō-mare means "night cougher", a nickname he took, as was common in that time, in honor of his daughter Princess Teri’inavahoroa who died from tuberculosis in 1792.[2][3]

Biography

He was born at Pare, ca. 1753, second son of Teu Tunuieaiteatua by his wife, Tetupaia-i-Hauiri. He initially reigned under the regency of his father, 1753, and succeeded on the death of his father as Ariʻi-rahi of Porionuʻu November 23, 1802.

As king, Pōmare succeeded in uniting the different chiefdoms of Tahiti into a single kingdom, composed of the islands of Tahiti itself, Moʻorea, Mehetiʻa, and the Tetiʻaroa group. His service as the first king of unified Tahiti ended when he abdicated in 1791, but he remained the regent of Tahiti from 1791 until 1803.

He married 4 times and had three sons and three daughters.

He died from thrombosis. He was succeeded by Tū Tūnuiʻēʻaiteatua Pōmare II, who reigned 1803-1821.

Ancestry

Family of Pōmare I
8. Teuruari’i
4. Tu-moe-hania
9. Marurai
2. Teu Tunuieaite Atua
10. Vehi-atua-i-te-mata’i
5. Tetua-huria
1. Pōmare I
24. Tamatoa II
12. Teri’i-ve-tearai Rofa’i
25. Te-ao-i-na-ni’a
6. Tamatoa III
13. Marama
3. Tetupaia-i-Hauiri
7. Mai-he’a

References

  1. ^ Royal Ark
  2. ^ David Stanley (2003). Moon Handbooks Tahiti: Including the Cook Islands. p. 85. ISBN 1-56691-412-4.
  3. ^ Historie.assemblee.pf
  • Teuira Henry; Ancient Tahiti / Tahiti aux temps anciens
  • Henry Adams; Memoirs of Arii Taimai / Mémoires d'Arii Taimai
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Regnal titles
New title King of Tahiti
1788–1791/1803 		Succeeded by
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