First Man

Marshallese first man / progenitor; classed as deity (primordial being). Native term Wūllep (variants Wulleb, Wüllep). Gloss 'First Man'. parentIds links to Lowa, from whose leg he and the first woman (Limdunanji) emerged; the trickster Letao is born from him.

Parentage

• Creator

Children

• Fire Trickster

Domains

• first ancestry

Powers

• raises the shell-half into sky and earth

Epithets

• Wūllep

Relations

• sibling: First Woman

Sources

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