Moon Ancestor
Marind · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Prominent celestial dema; exemplifies the dema 'slain/transformed deity yields crops' motif central to Jensen's and Van Baal's analyses. Treated as deity.
Parentage
- parent: Sky Father
- parent: Earth Mother
Domains
- moon
- origin of plants
- agriculture and cultivation
Powers
- yields the first food-plants from his body
Epithets
- Geb The dema who rose encrusted from the earth; ancestor and bringer of fire and the coconutJan van Baal, Dema: Marind-anim Culture (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: Sami
Sources
- Geb is a major dema of the Marind-anim, a child of Dinadin and Nubog associated with the moon (and sun), from whose body in myth the first food-plants such as the banana arise.: van Baal, Jan. Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (1966) (secondary); Wirz, Paul. Die Marind-anim von Holländisch-Süd-Neu-Guinea (1922–25) (secondary)