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myth

38 Kiribati words

• teweia
  • Sabatier myth. person, masculine.
• koroangutungutu
  • Sabatier myth. bird of Nei Tibuabine.
• taburimai
  • Sabatier myth. person. name of ancestor.
• uta
  • Sabatier myth. person who helped to lift the sky.
• rimoa n rara
  • Sabatier myth. pers. who saw or shed the first blood.
• takabea
  • Sabatier myth, name of giant, son of Kabanebane and Nei Keba.
• tabuariki
  • Sabatier a myth. person (anti ma aomata), personification of thunder.
• kantoa
  • Sabatier myth. per. kind of giant, son of Nao and Neiko, husband of Nei Uamumuru. cu.
• tikutikutumouma
  • Sabatier myth. person who guided Na Areau in the darkness of Bo-ma-te-maki: (Myth of Creation).
• uekera
  • Sabatier myth. tree planted at Buariki (Tarawa) by Nei Tekanuea from Nabanaba. She married Na Areau te Kikiteia. Nei Terere was their daughter.
• mannaba
  • Sabatier a bird (myth.).
• maiawa
  • Sabatier name of man (myth.).
• kama
  • Sabatier (myth.) name of person.
• tabakea
  • Sabatier name of myth. man-spirit.
• ketoa
  • Sabatier (2) Nei Ketoa: myth, bird.
• uka
  • Sabatier name of the first man (myth.).
• naikamawa
  • Sabatier name of anti-aomata, spirit (myth.).
• bawe
  • Sabatier Na Bawe: one of first men (myth). <myth>.
• ongaonga
  • Sabatier myth per. giant swallower of tree trunks.
• riki n te aba
  • Sabatier name of first creatures created with Riki. (myth.).
• temamang
  • Sabatier (1) myth. person, son of Bakewa, brother of Tabakea.
• beia ma te kai
  • Sabatier name of twin ancestors often taken for one person. <myth>.
• atibu
  • Sabatier Na Atibu name of one of the first created beings. <myth>.
• ti
  • Sabatier Na Areau te Ti: the youngest Na Areau (the third), myth.
• toa ma aomata
  • Sabatier te...: a man of the race of giants. myth. of the demi gods.
• ngkoangkoa
  • Sabatier ten Ngkoangkoa: one of the first beings created with Riki (myth.).
• baua ni kiebaeba
  • Sabatier Nei Kiebaeba: woman who had a large, red birthmark on body. <myth>.
• naibunaki
  • Sabatier name of an anti-aomata, spirit (Myth.). his wife, Nei Bakatorotoro.
• babatu
  • Sabatier a mat just commenced Nei Babatu: the woman who made the first mat. <myth>.
• toron te aba
  • Sabatier the setting up of the world, name of one of the first men to be created (myth).
• rikiriki
  • Sabatier Nei Rikiriki: myth. pers. who initiated men in arts and crafts and supervised them.
• nimatore
  • Sabatier tree of myth, legend, by means of which Nei Kiku went up to the moon to see Nei Nibarara.
• riki
  • Sabatier Ten Riki: myth. pers. of creation who elevated the sky to separate it from the earth by order of Na Areau.
• bo ma te maki
  • Sabatier te bo ma te maki: (closed and stuck) the sky and the earth were stuck together until Ten Areau lifted the dome of heaven (myth of Creation).
• kai n tikuaba
  • Sabatier (myth. tree) symbol of union in Samoa before the disaccord and dispersion. From the ancestors assembled there the genealogy of the Gilbertese begins.
• ino
  • Sabatier inon te Korouangungutu i Motuna: Beast of Nei Tituabine out of which were produced men (Kaurae, Kaura, Take, Kauratoka, Kaureiti, Kouratake, Manuwenikaura). myth.
• matanoko
  • Sabatier Nei Matanoko daughter of Komaki and Nei Nautonga (one of the three wives of the moon, she who makes mats). The other two wives are Ikuku and Nibarara (myth.).
• binaing
  • Sabatier 1. Na Binaing; myth. person who got buried to become a coconut tree, a coconut tree grew out of his skull, and Nei Kakanoriki, who had rejected him was now united to him by drinking the young coconuts and wearing a grass skirt made from leaves of this tree.