Founder of the Fertility Rite

Culture-hero / ritual-founder tier, rendered demigod. Kiwai boroma = 'pig'; mogúru = the great fertility rite. Marunogere is named among the renowned Kiwai mythic figures (with Sido and Nuga). English-leading 'Founder of the Fertility Rite'; the rite-name moguru carried in term. Vital status deceased: an ancestral hero of the myth-age.

Domains

• fertility rites
• animals and the hunt

Powers

• INSTITUTE the moguru fertility rite
• MAKE the first pig

Sources

• Landtman, G. (1917). The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 47, Helsinki.
• Landtman, G. (1927). The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea. Macmillan, London (on the moguru/mogúru rite).