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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.

According to myth, Kahausibware created pigs, cocoa-nut trees, and fruit trees. Having created food, she then created animals and humans to use it.

References

  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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