Sky-Creator

Solar high-god / creator-source of the Central Enga (rendered as deity). Brennan (1977) is the standard source on Central Enga cosmology; the moon is reckoned female opposite him. The name's distribution and the exact gloss vary by Enga dialect group.

Children

• Sky People

Domains

• sun
• creation

Powers

• ORIGINATE all that exists as the sky-source

Epithets

• Aitawe

Relations

• ancestor of: Sky People

Sources

• Brennan, P.W. (1977). Let Sleeping Snakes Lie: Central Enga Religious Belief and Ritual. Australian Association for the Study of Religions.
• Biersack, A. (2011). 'The Sun and the Shakers, Again: Enga, Ipili, and Somaip Perspectives on the Cult of Ain.' Oceania 81(2-3).