Founder of the Fertility Rite
Kiwai · demigod · mythic ancestral · Recorded classification
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
- Marunogere is the Kiwai culture-hero who instituted the moguru, the most secret and important fertility ceremony (held in the darimo longhouse), and who made the first pig.: Landtman, G. (1917). The Folk-Tales of the Kiwai Papuans. Acta Societatis Scientiarum Fennicae 47, Helsinki. (ethnography); Landtman, G. (1927). The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea. Macmillan, London (on the moguru/mogúru rite). (ethnography)