Rakim

The god of house-building and carpentry on Pohnpei. According to some, "the god of evil, disease, death and famine." On Ruk (Chuuk), Rakim, the rainbow; and Sonsorol, Glagim; and on Kusaie, Nelakem or Nklaken, with the same meaning.

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References

Source

  • Christian, F. W. (1899). Caroline Islands: Travel in the Sea of the Little Lands. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 381.