Patron of Carpenters
Fijian · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Craft-deity son of Degei; patron of the matai (carpenter) caste. Treated as deity. The Kaunitoni migration story is a recorded Fijian tradition though its present form shows 19th-c. literary shaping.
Parentage
- parent: Serpent Creator
Domains
- carpentry
- canoe building
Powers
- builds the great voyaging canoes of the ancestors
- masters the building of the great voyaging canoes
Sources
- Rokola, a son of Degei, is the Fijian patron god of carpenters and canoe-builders, credited with building the migration canoe Kaunitoni.: Fison, Lorimer. Tales from Old Fiji (1904) (secondary); Thomson, Basil. The Fijians (1908) (secondary)