Patron of Carpenters

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

• Serpent Creator

Domains

• carpentry
• canoe building

Powers

• builds the great voyaging canoes of the ancestors
• masters the building of the great voyaging canoes

Sources

• Fison, Lorimer. Tales from Old Fiji (1904)
• Thomson, Basil. The Fijians (1908)