Fe‘e (cosmical cuttlefish)
Samoan · numen · mythic · Recorded classification
The cuttlefish is made by Tangaloa in Turner’s sixth creation account and produces rocks below the earth. In his eighth account it springs from Ariari and an unnamed woman.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
No parents recorded in the default.
Parentage accounts
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- Turner eighth account
numen by descent in this account.
- father: AriariGeorge Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. I §§6,8 (primary)
Names and tradition associations
Relations
- created by: TagaloaGeorge Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. I §§6,8 (primary)
- father: AriariGeorge Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. I §§6,8 (primary)
- same name context: Le FeʻeTurner reports multiple cuttlefish-god contexts. This contextual navigation does not transfer the cosmical parentage to each local cult form.George Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. IV §8, O le Fe’e (primary)
Sources
- The cuttlefish is made by Tangaloa in Turner’s sixth creation account and produces rocks below the earth. In his eighth account it springs from Ariari and an unnamed woman.: George Turner, Samoa (1884), ch. I §§6,8 (primary)