Lumimuut (Lumimu'ut) is the primordial earth goddess and ancestral mother of the Minahasan people of North Sulawesi. In the highland (Tontemboan and Tombulu) tradition she emerges from a stone that the sun has caused to sweat, prayed over by the first priestess Karema, so that her very name is linked to that moisture; she is glossed as the morning dew or 'the sweat of the ground'. A coastal variant, recorded in encyclopaedic sources, has her born from the foam of the sea. Turning to face the strong wind out of the west, she is fertilized by it and bears a son, Toar. Mother and son are sent travelling in opposite directions; meeting again after many years, neither recognizing the other, they marry, and from this union descend the lineages of Minahasa. As the divider of the land, Lumimuut gathers her offspring at the carved megalith Watu Pinawetengan, the 'stone of the dividing', and apportions the territory among the ancestral sub-groups. In the indigenous theology she is the 'mother' of the sky-triad, ranked below the grandmother Karema and above her child Toar.