Malaveyoyo
Goodenough Island · mortal · Goodenough Island traditional religion; continuing · mortal
Malaveyoyo is remembered in Kalauna as a tyrannical ogre-chief of the recent mythic past, a devourer of men and master of the famine magic (loka) by which the Lulauvile guardians could wither gardens and starve their rivals. Tradition casts him as the archetype of the abusive food-giver, monopolising abundance and driving the competitive food-exchanges (abutu, 'fighting with food') to ruinous extremes before he was at last destroyed. His career embodies the dangerous underside of the ritual power over prosperity and hunger that Kalauna's magicians still claim.
Domains
- famine
- food exchange
Powers
- blight gardens with famine magic
- devour his subjects as an ogre
Epithets
- the ogre-chief