Saveasiʻuleo

Saveasiʻuleo, the half-man, half-moray-eel Aliʻi (lord) of Pulotu, the Samoan spirit-world; brother of Ulufanuaseseʻe (recorded in this note rather than as a relation, since the brother is not separately authored), and father of the war-goddess Nafanua, whose birth was concealed from him because he devoured his offspring. He commissions and arms Nafanua for the war of liberation. Documented by Turner, Krämer and Stair (secondary).

Children

• Nafanua

Domains

• spirit world and the dead
• sea and the deep
• sovereignty over pulotu

Powers

• Rule the spirit-world Pulotu and receive the souls of the dead
• Possess the divided body of a man above and a moray-eel's tail below, reaching into the sea
• Devour his own offspring as they are born
• Send and arm his daughter Nafanua to free the oppressed people of the upper world

Relations

• father of: NafanuaFather of the war-goddess Nafanua, whom he kept by him in Pulotu and armed for the war of liberation.A. Krämer, Die Samoa-Inseln (1902/03); G. Turner, Samoa (1884): Nafanua, daughter of Saveasiʻuleo of Pulotu (secondary)
• sibling: UlufanuaseseeReciprocal of samoan_ulufanuasesee.sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)

Sources

• existence: G. Turner, Samoa, a Hundred Years Ago and Long Before (1884), Pulotu and Saveasiʻuleo (secondary); A. Krämer, Die Samoa-Inseln (1902/03; Eng. The Samoa Islands), the Pulotu / Nafanua cycle (secondary)
• eel-lord-of-pulotu-and-father-of-nafanua: A. Krämer, Die Samoa-Inseln (1902/03): the half-man half-eel Aliʻi of Pulotu, father of Nafanua (secondary)