The Sun

The sun is a personified sky-being whose daily crossing orders Foi reckonings of time. In the celestial lore recorded for Lake Kutubu it is paired with the moon; the two are variously cast as kin or as rivals. Foi religion accords the sky-beings a modest place, its cosmological attention resting far more on the ghosts of the dead and on the spirits of bush and water.

Domains

• celestial bodies
• daylight

Powers

• crosses the sky by day

Relations

• sibling: The Moon

Sources

• F. E. Williams, Natives of Lake Kutubu, Papua, Oceania Monographs No. 6 (1940-41).