Kahausibware

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. JSTOR 2841527.
^ "Kahausibware". Oxford Reference.
^ Wheeler, Gerald Clair William Camden (1926). Mono-Alu Folklore: (Bougainville Strait, Western Solomon Islands). G. Routledge.

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[1] 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. JSTOR 2841527.

[2] "Kahausibware". Oxford Reference.

[3] Wheeler, Gerald Clair William Camden (1926). Mono-Alu Folklore: (Bougainville Strait, Western Solomon Islands). G. Routledge.

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