Thunderer

Thunder/lightning deity, the most prominent of the invoked anti. Treated as deity; immortal. RECIPROCAL within batch with Nei Tevenei (spouse). The variant spelling 'Taburimai' is attested but is sometimes treated as a distinct hero; kept here only as an alt form.

Domains

• thunder
• lightning
• wind and rain
• healing
• fertility and the crops

Powers

• hurls fiery thunderbolts and rolls the thunder when angry
• rules the winds and the rain and heals the sick
• wrestles Nareau, who breaks his arm

Epithets

• Taburimai

Relations

• spouse: Comet Goddess
• enemy: World-Maker

Sources

• Grimble, Arthur. Tungaru Traditions: Writings on the Atoll Culture of the Gilbert Islands (ed. H.E. Maude, 1989)
• Grimble, Rosemary. Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands (1972)