Eare

Eare is the second of the two named figures of the Orokolo myth 'Marai and Eare', one of the three Elema clan myths recorded in the Toaripi language and published with translation and annotation by Herbert A. Brown in 1988; an independent telling, 'A Legend about Mairi and Eare', appeared in the journal Oral History in 1978. The lou-oharo (clan myths) in which Eare features functioned as narrative charters of clan identity among the Elema of Orokolo Bay, Papua New Guinea.

Domains

• clan origins

Powers

• to enact, with Marai, the ancestral events recounted in the Orokolo clan myth bearing their names

Relations

• companion: MaraiEare and Marai are paired as the joint protagonists of a single Orokolo clan myth, recorded together in Toaripi and always transmitted as a pair.H.A. Brown, Three Elema Myths: Recorded in Toaripi, Translated and Annotated, Pacific Linguistics D-80, Australian National University, 1988 (secondary)

Sources

• Eare is one of the two named protagonists of the Orokolo (Elema) clan myth 'Marai and Eare', recorded in Toaripi and published in translation.: H.A. Brown, Three Elema Myths: Recorded in Toaripi, Translated and Annotated, Pacific Linguistics D-80, Australian National University, Canberra, 1988 (secondary); Aihi Kekeo, 'A Legend about Mairi and Eare', Oral History (Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies), 1978 (secondary)