Reef Founder

Pohnpeian founder-settler culture-hero; classed as demigod. Native term Sapwkini. Gloss 'Reef Founder'. The Book of Luelen makes him and his canoe-company the first to raise land on Pohnpei, the act memorialized in the island's name (pohn-pei).

Domains

• land building
• seafaring settlement

Powers

• raises the island upon the submerged reef

Sources

• Bernart, L. (1977). The Book of Luelen (trans. Fischer, Riesenberg & Whiting). Pacific History Series 8, Australian National University Press, Canberra
• Hambruch, P. (1932-1936). Ponape. Ergebnisse der Südsee-Expedition 1908-1910, II.B.7, Friederichsen, Hamburg