Sina (the Ancestral Woman)
Wallisian Futunan · deity · Wallisian Futunan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
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
- Sina is the ancestral woman/heroine of the 'Uvea and Futuna oral cycles, including the eel-and-coconut and Tinilau tales.: Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Futuna, Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 138 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1936). (secondary); Edwin G. Burrows, Ethnology of Uvea (Wallis Island), Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 145 (Honolulu: Bishop Museum, 1937). (secondary)