Sami

Sami is a Marind-anim dema, child of the sky-deity Dinadin and the earth-deity Nubog, named beside the dema Geb in the prose of marind_dinadin (parent of dema such as Geb and Sami) and in van Baal Dema (1966). Authored here with the parental links to Dinadin and Nubog and the sibling link to Geb.

Parentage

• Sky Father
• Earth Mother

Domains

• ancestral dema
• creation and origins

Powers

• stands among the first dema brought forth by sky and earth

Relations

• sibling: Moon Ancestor

Sources

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