Moon Ancestor

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

• Sky Father
• Earth Mother

Domains

• moon
• origin of plants
• agriculture and cultivation

Powers

• yields the first food-plants from his body

Epithets

• Geb

Relations

• sibling: Sami

Sources

• van Baal, Jan. Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-anim Culture (1966)
• Wirz, Paul. Die Marind-anim von Holländisch-Süd-Neu-Guinea (1922–25)