The Lamp-Bearer

Entered as a deity (a kalou). The brief proposed him as a son of Degei, but his filiation is NOT firmly attested — the sources say his parentage varies by locale, and the only genealogies given (the Cakaudrove 'gone mai wai', child-from-the-sea) do not lead back to Degei; the Degei link is a loose modern 'holy trinity' framing. Per the accuracy rule he is therefore entered kinless (see SOLITARY flag) rather than asserted as Degei's son. The name is securely glossed (cina = lamp/torch).

Domains

• light and fire
• seafaring and navigation
• seduction and adultery
• fishing

Powers

• lights the reefs and shoals with his torch
• beguiles women by night in a borrowed shape

Epithets

• Daucina Fijian · Daucina · cult'the torch-bearer / expert of light'Grokipedia, 'Daucina'; Wikipedia, 'Daucina' (secondary)

Sources

• Daucina ('the lamp-bearer'; Williams's Ndauthina) is a Fijian god of light, seafaring and the night reef-fishery, especially revered in Cakaudrove and Natewa, who lights the reefs with his torch and is at the same time the notorious patron of seducers and adulterers, taking on borrowed shapes to beguile women by night.: Williams, Thomas. Fiji and the Fijians, Vol. 1 (1858) (secondary); Thomson, Basil. The Fijians: A Study of the Decay of Custom (1908) (secondary)