Lugeilang

Lugeilang is the sky god of the middle heavens, son of the supreme deity Ialulep (Aluelap) and, in the Chuukic genealogy, brother of the creatrix Ligoapup. He is the divine intermediary between the remote high god and the world of men: descending to earth, he takes a mortal woman and begets the trickster Iolofath, whose exploits dominate Ulithian and wider Carolinian narrative. His name is widely parsed as 'within the sky'.

Parentage

• parent: IalulepBurrows, E. G. & Spiro, M. E. (1953), An Atoll Culture, HRAF. (secondary)

Children

• Iolofath

Domains

• sky

Powers

• descends from the sky to consort with mortals

Relations

• parent: IalulepBurrows, E. G. & Spiro, M. E. (1953), An Atoll Culture, HRAF. (secondary)
• sibling: LigoapupGoodenough, W. H. (2002), Under Heaven's Brow, American Philosophical Society - Lukeleng and Ligoapup among the offspring of the great god. (secondary)
• child: IolofathLessa, W. A. (1961), Tales from Ulithi Atoll, University of California Press. (secondary)

Sources

• Lugeilang is a sky god, son of the supreme deity, occupying the middle heavens between the great god and mankind.: Burrows, E. G. & Spiro, M. E. (1953), An Atoll Culture: Ethnography of Ifaluk, HRAF. (secondary)
• By union with a mortal woman Lugeilang fathers the trickster Iolofath, the pivotal figure of the Carolinian tale corpus.: Lessa, W. A. (1961), Tales from Ulithi Atoll, University of California Press. (secondary)