The Octopus Goddess

Authored as the named, attested mother of chuukese_tarisso (and so maternal grandmother of Olifat). Classed deity (octopus sea-goddess). Her gendered ribald dance is the narrative hinge of the Olifat conception. WIRE-EDGE handled within this batch via Tarisso parentIds and the reciprocal mother edge here.

Children

• The Mortal Mother of the Trickster

Domains

• sea and ocean
• dance and revelry

Powers

• dances so lewdly that the rival sky-wife faints

Relations

• mother of: The Mortal Mother of the Trickster

Sources

• William A. Lessa, Tales from Ulithi Atoll (University of California Press, 1961) (Iolofath/Olofat cycle of the central Carolines).
• Survey of Micronesian (Carolinian) mythology recording Hit the octopus goddess as mother of Tarisso in the Olifat conception story.