Cirinakaumoli the Twin
Fijian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Entered as a deity (an ancestral war-cycle god); the twin of fijian_nakausabaria. Descent from Degei is 'grandson' in the prevailing saga (variants: son; or father = Tui Nubulevu); parentIds left empty for the same reason as his twin, with the Degei link carried by the cited 'enemy' relation and parentRoles. Name orthography varies (Cirinakaumoli / Nacirikaumoli / Thirikaumoli).
Domains
- war
- canoe building
Powers
- rebels against Degei and brings on the first great war
- patron of the canoe-builders
- shoots Degei's sacred cock Turukawa and provokes the first war
Epithets
- Cirinakaumoli variant orthography of the elder twin's nameFiji Times, 'How tribal war started in Fiji' (secondary)
Relations
- twin sibling: Nakausabaria the TwinThe two are an inseparable twin pair in the Nakauvadra cycle.Geraghty, Paul (ed.). Degei's Descendants (ANU Press), on the Nakauvadra twins Nakausabaria and Cirinakaumoli (secondary)
- enemy: Serpent CreatorThe twins (his grandsons in the prevailing tradition) rebel against and make war on Degei after the killing of his cock Turukawa.Fison, Lorimer. 'Ancestor Worship Among the Fijians', Popular Science Monthly 47 (1895) (secondary)
Sources
- Cirinakaumoli (Nacirikaumoli) is one of the twin grandsons of the supreme god Degei in the Nakauvadra cycle; with his twin Nakausabaria he killed Degei's prize cock Turukawa, provoking the great founding war of Fiji and the dispersal of its peoples, and the two are honoured as patron deities of canoe-building and are figured on Fiji's coat of arms.: Fison, Lorimer. 'Ancestor Worship Among the Fijians', Popular Science Monthly 47 (1895) (secondary); Fison, Lorimer. Tales from Old Fiji (1904) (secondary); Geraghty, Paul (ed.). Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji (ANU Press) (secondary)