Religion:Kahausibware
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Short description: Entity of Local Belief
Kahausibware is a serpentine female spirit and primeval creator goddess revered in the Solomon Islands. She was a Hi'ona—a powerful supernatural being who created the world.[1][2]
According to myth, Kahausibware created pigs, cocoa-nut trees, and fruit trees. Having created food, she then created animals and humans to use it.[3]
References
- ↑ Codrington, Robert Henry (1881). "Religious Beliefs and Practices in Melanesia.". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 10: 261–316. doi:10.2307/2841527. https://zenodo.org/record/2313080.
- ↑ (in en) Kahausibware. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810105203401?rskey=ke4XC5&result=17.
- ↑ Wheeler, Gerald Clair William Camden (1926) (in en). Mono-Alu Folklore: (Bougainville Strait, Western Solomon Islands). G. Routledge. https://books.google.com/books?id=9yQHAQAAIAAJ&q=Kahausibware+creator.
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