Giant Girl
Palauan · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Palauan world-body progenitrix; classed as deity. Native term Chuab. Counterpart and (in some tellings) precursor of Milad; included as a foregrounded creator alongside Latmikaik. The motif of the felled giantess whose body forms the land is a central Palauan origin myth.
Domains
- land origin
Powers
- becomes the land of Palau in death
Relations
- descendant of: Mother of the SeaBorne by the sea-mother in the creation sequence; the giant girl fed by the villages whose felled body became the islands of Belau.R. E. Parmentier, The Sacred Remains: Myth, History, and Polity in Belau (Chicago 1987) (secondary)
Sources
- Chuab is the giant woman whose body, when she fell, became the islands of Palau.: Krämer, A. (1917-1929). Palau. Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910, II.B.3, Friederichsen, Hamburg (ethnography); Force, R.W. & Force, M.T. (1972). Just One House: A Description and Analysis of Kinship in the Palau Islands. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu (reference)