Moon
Huli · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Huli hana = 'moon'. Lunar goddess, the only daughter among Honabe's children; paired with her brother Ni the sun. Demigod tier as offspring of the creator pair.
Parentage
- parent: Creator-Mother
- parent: Sky-Father
Domains
- moon
- fertility rites
Powers
- Becomes and governs the moon, the great night-light
Relations
- sibling: Ancestor of the HuliFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Creator-Mother & Sky-Father) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Malevolent GodFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Creator-Mother & Sky-Father) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Firstborn GodFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Creator-Mother & Sky-Father) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: SunFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Creator-Mother & Sky-Father) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: Piandela
Sources
- Hana is the moon, the daughter of Honabe and Timbu and sister of Ni the sun; she and the sun are primordial sources of human life and a focus of Huli fertility rites.: Glasse, R.M. (1965). 'The Huli of the Southern Highlands.' In Lawrence & Meggitt (eds.), Gods Ghosts and Men in Melanesia. Oxford University Press. (ethnography); Frankel, S. (1986). The Huli Response to Illness. Cambridge University Press. (ethnography)