Sun

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

• Creator-Mother
• 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

Relations

• sibling: Moon
• sibling: Ancestor of the Huli
• sibling: Malevolent God
• sibling: Firstborn God
• sibling: Piandela

Sources

• Glasse, R.M. (1965). 'The Huli of the Southern Highlands.' In Lawrence & Meggitt (eds.), Gods Ghosts and Men in Melanesia. Oxford University Press.
• Frankel, S. (1986). The Huli Response to Illness. Cambridge University Press.