Great Mother Turtle

Marshallese turtle-ancestress / tutelary spirit; classed as deity (theriomorphic culture-spirit). Native term Lijebake (the feminine prefix Li- marks a female being; wōn is the turtle). Gloss 'Great Mother Turtle'.

Domains

• sea creatures
• bestowal of power

Powers

• grants magic power to the trickster sons

Epithets

• Lijebake

Sources

• Tobin, J.A. (2002). Stories from the Marshall Islands: Bwebwenato Jān Aelōñ Kein. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu
• Flood, B. & Strong, B.E. (2002). Micronesian Legends. Bess Press, Honolulu