Sun
Huli · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Huli ni = 'sun'. A solar deity personifying the daystar; treated as demigod as offspring of the creator pair. Paired with Hana the moon in cosmology and ritual.
Parentage
- parent: Creator-Mother
- parent: Sky-Father
Domains
- sun
- fertility rites
- light
Powers
- GIVE life and warmth as the sun
- Gives light and warmth as the personified sun
Epithets
- Ni The Sun; the great male power of the sky and source of generative lifeHuli (Papua New Guinea) ethnography (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: MoonFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Creator-Mother & Sky-Father) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- 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: Piandela
Sources
- Ni is the sun, a son of Honabe and Timbu; the sun and his sister Hana the moon are regarded as primordial sources of human life and are focal to 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)