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In the mythology of parts of western Polynesia (specifically Tonga and Samoa), Pulotu is the underworld, the world of darkness (as opposed to the human world of light). Pulotu may be represented as the paradise from which the gods came and to which the souls of deceased chiefs go. (Commoners were not supposed to have souls). In some accounts, according to Craig, Pulotu is a jumping-off place of spirits on their way to the underworld.〔This idea of a jumping-off place needs to be verified from another source; it may be a mistaken interpolation of ideas from Eastern Polynesia, e.g. Māori.〕 This word ''pulotu'' may or may not be related with the word ''purotu'' (and variants) found in many eastern Polynesian languages, meaning ''beautiful (person)''. ==Tonga== In Tongan mythology, Pulotu is presided over by Havea Hikuleo. In Tongan cosmology the sky, the sea, and Pulotu existed from the beginning, and the gods lived there. The first land they made for the people was Touiaifutuna (''trapped in Futuna''), which was only a rock. There are suggestions that for Tonga and Samoa, Pulotu refers to a real country, in fact Matuku in the Lau Islands. Tonga and Samoa would have been vassals or tributary confederates of the Tui Pulotu network in Fiji, which was in turn overshadowed by the Tui Manu'a confederacy of Samoa (which was overturned by the Tu'i Tonga dynasty of Tonga). After the independence struggle by Hikuleo and his cousins Maui Motua and Tangaloa Eiki, they renamed Touiaifutuna into Tongamamao. Only after that the other islands were made (the volcanic islands by Hikuleo and the coral islands by Maui). Finally Tongamamao was renamed, for the last time, as Tonga. Hikuleo is supposed to have married a daughter of Tangaloa Eiki. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pulotu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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