Agunua

Sa'a & Ulawa · deity · Sa'a & Ulawa traditional religion; continuing · deity

Agunua is the great creator figona of Bauro in San Cristoval, imagined as an enormous snake who made the sky, the sea, the land and every living thing and who taught the first people to plant and to fish. In the San Cristoval account the useful and the harmful or useless things of the world are divided between Agunua and a lesser, spoiling counterpart, so that Agunua's creation is the good order of the world. He belongs to the same south-east Solomonic complex of serpent figona documented by Ivens for Sa'a and Ulawa, where the corresponding creator-snake is Kahausibware.

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