Sky-Lifting Eel

Kiribati · deity · primordial · deity

The sky-lifting eel of the Tungaru cosmogony. Already named in the corpus within Nareau the Younger's 'raise-the-sky' faculty; here given his own entry, wired as a child of the registered Na Atibu and sibling of Nareau the Younger and of Na Kika. Identified with the Milky Way (Na Iabu). Treated as deity; immortal (set in the sky, not slain).

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