Bringer of Arts

Sky-god's son and giver of useful arts; intermediary between gods and people. Treated as deity. Genealogy: Anulap > Lugeilan > Olifat.

Parentage

• parent: Sky Creator

Children

• Trickster Fire-Bringer

Domains

• useful arts
• agriculture

Powers

• teaches people tillage, tattooing and hairdressing
• Mediate between the sky-gods and mankind

Epithets

• Lugeilang latin · Lugeilang · cultThe sky-god who brought knowledge (tattooing, agriculture) to humankind; father of OlofatChuukese (Trukese) ethnography; Bollig, Die Bewohner der Truk-Inseln (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: The Mortal Mother of the Trickster

Sources

• Lugeilan (Lugeleng), son of the sky-god Anulap, is the Chuukese deity who brought humankind the arts of tillage, tattooing and hairdressing, and who fathered the trickster Olifat by a mortal woman.: Bollig, Laurentius. Die Bewohner der Truk-Inseln (1927) (secondary); Lessa, William A., on Carolinian mythology (Journal of American Folklore, 1966) (secondary)