Nan-chelang

The god of canoe building and carpentry. He is incarnate in a green and yellow tree-lizard of the same name.

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References

Sources

  • Christian, F. W. (1899). Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 383.
  • Lessa, William A. (1961). Tales from the Ulithi Atoll: A Comparative Study in Oceanic Folklore. Folklore Studies, Vol. 13. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, p. 32.