Comet Goddess
Kiribati · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Comet/meteor goddess, consort of Tabuariki. Attestation is briefer than the other figures (named as Tabuariki's meteor-consort and listed among the earliest anti), so domains/faculties are kept to what is securely recorded. Treated as deity; immortal. RECIPROCAL within batch with Tabuariki (spouse).
Domains
- comets and meteors
Powers
- is the comet (meteor) that crosses the sky
Relations
- spouse: ThundererWife of Tabuariki the Thunderer; the comet paired with the thunder among the chief anti.Grimble, Arthur. Tungaru Traditions (ed. Maude, 1989), the consort of Tabuariki the Thunderer (secondary)
Sources
- Nei Tevenei (Tevene'i 'of the Meteor') is the Gilbertese comet/meteor goddess, counted among the ancestral anti famous from the earliest times and named as the consort of Tabuariki the Thunderer.: Grimble, Arthur. Tungaru Traditions: Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands (ed. H.E. Maude, 1989) (secondary)