The First of the Dead
Foi · numen · Foi traditional religion; continuing · numen
Death is said to have entered the world through a primordial being whose passing could not be undone, and from that first death derive the ghosts of the dead. These ghosts, not any high god, are the dominant supernatural presence of Foi life: they linger near their former places, act upon the living, and are addressed and placated. Weiner stresses that Foi religion has no developed pantheon of creator deities, its cosmology resting instead on the relation between the living and the dead.
Domains
- death and the dead
- ancestral ghosts
Powers
- brings death that cannot be reversed
Epithets
- the origin of death