Sina (the Ancestral Woman)

Wallisian Futunan · deity · Wallisian Futunan traditional religion; continuing · deity

Sina (Hina) is the widespread Polynesian ancestral woman; in the Futuna and 'Uvea repertoire recorded by Burrows she is heroine of the eel-and-coconut origin and of the Tinilau (Sinilau) cycle.

Domains

ancestral heroine

Powers

to act as heroine of the origin and Tinilau cycles

Sources

Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Futuna, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1936).
Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Uvea (Wallis Island), Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 145 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1937).

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