Sky Creator

Chuukese high-god; name means roughly 'great spirit' (anu 'spirit' + lap 'great'). Recorded by the Capuchin missionary-ethnographer Bollig (1927) and the Hamburg South Seas Expedition reports. Treated as deity.

Children

• Bringer of Arts

Domains

• sky
• knowledge and magic

Powers

• bestows magic and knowledge upon humankind
• Teach humankind wisdom, law and craft

Epithets

• Anulap
• Enuunap

Relations

• ancestor of: Bringer of Arts
• ancestor of: Trickster Fire-Bringer

Sources

• Bollig, Laurentius. Die Bewohner der Truk-Inseln (1927)
• Lessa, William A. 'Discoverer-of-the-Sun: Mythology as a Reflection of Culture' (Journal of American Folklore, 1966), on Carolinian high-gods