Aluluei is the god of navigation and seamanship, the patron of the palu or master navigators, and son of the primordial captain Palulop. He was among the first Carolinian deities to enter the written record, described in 1817 by the voyager Kadu to the naturalist Adelbert von Chamisso as god of the sea and of the stars. He is imagined with a face on both the front and the back of his head, and his many eyes are the stars by which a canoe is steered. In the widespread navigation myth his elder half-brothers mistreated and killed him, whereupon he became the sea-god who forever guides seafarers. His name resembles that of the supreme god so closely that some accounts conflate the two; scholars differ over whether the sea-god and the sky-god were originally one.