In the celestial mythology of the Admiralty Islands the Moon is a personified being, ordinarily reckoned male and paired with the Sun. Beyond his governance of night and its light, Admiralty origin narratives associate the Moon with the beginnings of the sea-dwelling Titan and Manus peoples and with the first ordering of the world, though sources differ on how large a part he plays and whether the culture-hero role belongs to him or to other primal figures. The celestial cycle, and the relation of Moon and Sun as kin, recur across the recorded island tales even where the fuller cosmogony is thin, a sparseness that reflects the strongly ghost-centred cast of Manus religion as a whole.