Lug (recorded by Wilhelm Müller as Lugalang) is, with Yalafath, one of the two principal sky gods of Yap; Müller notes that both have counterparts in the atolls of the central Carolines, where the corresponding figure is the sky-lord Lugeilang. In the Yapese conception of the person each living being possesses two souls, one that lives and one that dies (yaan ni yam); when a person dies, the soul-that-dies is devoured by Lug and an unnamed companion, while the soul-that-lives wanders the earth. He is thus at once a celestial ruler and a devourer at the threshold of death, standing apart from the beneficent high god Yalafath and the chief god Yanolop who governs the afterworld proper.