Fire Trickster

Marshallese fire-bringer and trickster culture-hero; classed as demigod (trickster tier). Native term Letao (variant Edao, the same figure Erdland records as the magician son akin to Carolinian Olofat). Gloss 'Fire Trickster'. parentIds links to Wulleb, from a boil on whose leg or his forehead Letao sprang.

Parentage

• First Man

Domains

• fire
• trickery

Powers

• wrests fire and secrets from gods by guile

Epithets

• Edao

Sources

• Tobin, J.A. (2002). Stories from the Marshall Islands: Bwebwenato Jān Aelōñ Kein. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
• Erdland, A. (1914). Die Marshall-Insulaner: Leben und Sitte, Sinn und Religion eines Südsee-Volkes. Anthropos-Bibliothek, Aschendorff, Münster