Kââvo

Kââvo is a female ancestral figure of Paicî oral literature, named beside Téâ Kanaké in the traditions of origin. She is associated with the earth and its cultivated plants, with the first woman, and with the fertility on which the alliance of lineages depends. Sources differ on whether she is the companion, sister, or counterpart of the first ancestor, and her story survives in fragments rather than in a single fixed narrative; her name has since passed into modern Kanak letters as an emblem of the ancestral feminine.

Domains

• fertility
• earth

Powers

• stands as the ancestral first woman

Epithets

• Kââvo — the ancestral womanAlban Bensa & Jean-Claude Rivierre, Les chemins de l'alliance (SELAF, Paris, 1982) (secondary)

Relations

• companion: Téâ KanakéSources differ on whether she is the companion, sister, or counterpart of the first ancestor.Alban Bensa & Jean-Claude Rivierre, Les chemins de l'alliance (SELAF, Paris, 1982) (secondary)

Sources

• Kââvo is a female ancestral figure of Paicî oral tradition, named beside Téâ Kanaké in the traditions of origin and associated with the earth and its cultivated plants.: Alban Bensa & Jean-Claude Rivierre, Les chemins de l'alliance (SELAF, Paris, 1982) (secondary)