Luk

On Yap, the god of death and disease; a mischievous and ever-active deity. Luk is also the patron of thieves and robbers. He is incarnate in the orra, a black nocturnal bird.

Luk is also mentioned as a god of the dance.1

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References

Notes

  1. Furness, William Henry. (1910). The Island of Stone Money: Yap of the Carolinas. Philadelphia: Lippincott, p. 150.

Source

  • Christian, F. W. (1899). Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 254, 384-385.