Trickster Fire-Bringer

Pan-Carolinian trickster/culture-hero foregrounded per the brief; entered as demigod (mortal mother, divine father). vitalStatus 'immortal' as he ascends to the sky in myth. Lessa documents the same figure as Iolofath across Ulithi and the wider Carolines.

Parentage

• Bringer of Arts
• The Mortal Mother of the Trickster

Domains

• trickery
• fire

Powers

• brings fire down to humankind
• changes his shape to escape and deceive
• Arm the sharks with teeth
• Be born from his mother's head

Sources

• Bollig, Laurentius. Die Bewohner der Truk-Inseln (1927)
• Lessa, William A. Tales from Ulithi Atoll (1961)