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 TricksterHer daughter Tarisso, by Lugeilan, is the mother of the trickster Olifat.Bollig, Die Bewohner der Truk-Inseln (1927); Mitchell, Micronesian mythology — Hit the octopus-goddess, mother of Tarisso in the Olifat birth-cycle. (secondary)

Sources

• Hit is the Carolinian octopus goddess, mother of the mortal woman Tarisso; in the Olifat birth-myth her lewd dance makes the sky-wife Hamulul faint, allowing Lugeilan to lie with Tarisso and Olifat to be conceived.: William A. Lessa, Tales from Ulithi Atoll (University of California Press, 1961) (Iolofath/Olofat cycle of the central Carolines). (secondary); Survey of Micronesian (Carolinian) mythology recording Hit the octopus goddess as mother of Tarisso in the Olifat conception story. (secondary)