Old Woman
Palauan · deity · mythic age · deity
Palauan ancestral mother of the four founding states; classed as deity. Native term Milad ('she who has given birth / the aged one'). Her rock-shelter at Ngeremlengui is held the most sacred origin site of Palau. Parmentier's ethnohistory documents the Milad cycle as the charter of Palauan polity.
Domains
- motherhood of states
Powers
- gives birth to the four founding states of Palau
Epithets
- Milad
Relations
- descendant of: Mother of the Sea