Creator
Marshallese · deity · primordial · deity
Marshallese creator high-god; classed as deity. Native term Lowa (variant Loa, with the macron Lōwa in current orthography). Gloss 'Creator'. The creation-by-utterance ('Lowa, Lowa...') is the charter chant; he remains in the background after appointing the cardinal gods and the first beings.
Children
Domains
- creation
- the primeval sea
Powers
- chants the reefs and islands into being
Epithets
- Lowa
Relations
- ancestor of: Fire Trickster