Teao, Hue, and the 1826 Tahitian prophetic controversy

Record summary

Teao and Hue are regularly named in accounts of the first major Mamaia controversy in Tahiti. They reportedly claimed special religious authority and challenged the legitimacy of recently established Protestant institutions, drawing on biblical and indigenous elements. The episode is useful as a focused comparison with later Pacific revelations because it places named prophetic actors, missionary testimony, and institutional conflict in the same setting. Uncertainty remains over the precise wording of their teachings, the extent of their following, and how much surviving detail reflects translation and missionary reconstruction rather than verbatim statements.