Palulop
Central Carolinian · deity · Central Carolinian traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Palulop, the 'great navigator', is the primordial captain and ancestral source of Carolinian wayfinding. He stands at the head of the line of sea-gods, and his son Aluluei becomes the patron deity of navigators. Through this lineage the star-paths, canoe-craft and sailing-lore transmitted in the pwo navigator-initiation are traced back to a single divine origin. His name pairs palu, the word for a master navigator, with the augmentative lap, 'great'.
Children
Domains
- navigation
Powers
- fathers the deities and lore of wayfinding
Relations
- child: AlulueiGladwin, T. (1970), East Is a Big Bird, Harvard University Press - Aluluei the son of Palulap. (secondary)
Sources
- Palulop is the primordial master navigator, the ancestral 'great captain' from whom the sea-gods and the whole tradition of wayfinding descend.: Gladwin, T. (1970), East Is a Big Bird: Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll, Cambridge: Harvard University Press. (secondary)
- In the navigation mythology his son is the sea and star god Aluluei, patron of navigators.: Goodenough, W. H. (2002), Under Heaven's Brow, American Philosophical Society. (secondary)