Tui Delai Gau

Tui Delai Gau is the god of mountains[1] in Fijian mythology,[2] who can remove his hands and have them fish for him. He can also take off his head and put it in the sky as a look-out. He lives in a tree.[3]

Sources

  1. ^ Waterhouse, Joseph (1997) [1866, London, Wesleyan Conference Office]. "Tui Dela i Gau". The king and people of Fiji. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 269–272.
  2. ^ Hames, Alice Inez (1967). "The God of the Summit of Gau". In Reed, Alexander Wyclif (ed.). Myths and legends of Fiji and Rotuma. Reed. pp. 58 et seq.
  3. ^ Knappert, Jan (1992). "Tree God". Pacific mythology: an encyclopedia of myth and legend. Aquarian/Thorsons. p. 305. ISBN 9781855381339.

Further reading

  • Toren, Christina (1999). "Cosmogenic Aspects of Desire and Compassion in Fiji". Mind, Materiality, and History: Explorations in Fijian Ethnography. Routledge. pp. 148–151. ISBN 9780415195775.
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