Ancestress-creatress / culture-heroine tier (rendered deity). The Min peoples are collectively the 'children of Afek'; cognate names occur across the group (Telefol Afek/Afékan, Faiwol Karigan, Mian Paatakanib/Fitipkanib). The transliterations field carries those tradition-variant names. English-leading name 'Ancestress-Creatress'; vernacular Afek in term.
Domains
ancestral origins
agriculture
male cult and initiation
Powers
FOUND the Telefolip cult-house and the taro gardens
Barth, F. (1987). Cosmologies in the Making: A Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. Cambridge University Press.
Jorgensen, D. (1981). Taro and Arrows: Order, Entropy and Religion among the Telefolmin. PhD thesis, University of British Columbia.
Craig, B. & Hyndman, D. (eds.) (1990). Children of Afek: Tradition and Change among the Mountain-Ok of Central New Guinea. Oceania Monograph 40, University of Sydney.