Tangaro Gilagilala
Banks Islands · deity · Banks Islands traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Tangaro Gilagilala, 'Tangaro the Wise', is the cleverest of Qat's eleven brothers, all of whom bear the name Tangaro and were born together from the stone Qatgoro. Where his brother Loloqong is a byword for folly, Gilagilala understands everything and does all things rightly; the pair express a characteristic Banks Islands contrast of wisdom and stupidity within a single set of kin. In the cycle the brothers as a body grow jealous of Qat's wife Ro Lei and repeatedly plot his death.
Parentage
- parent: QatgoroR. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (1891), p. 156. (primary)
Domains
- wisdom and knowing
Powers
- understand and judge all things rightly
Epithets
- Gilagilala — the WiseR. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (1891), p. 156. (primary)
Relations
- parent: QatgoroR. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (1891), p. 156. (primary)
- sibling: QatR. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (1891), p. 156. (primary)
- sibling: Tangaro LoloqongR. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (1891), p. 156. (primary)
Sources
- Tangaro Gilagilala, 'the Wise', is one of Qat's eleven brothers, the one who understands all things, paired as a foil against the foolish brother.: R. H. Codrington, The Melanesians (1891), ch. X, p. 156. (primary)