Marawa
Marawa, an envious man, saw what Qat had made and took another kind of wood and gave them life. When he saw them move, he dug a pit and covered the bottom with coconut fronds, burying his men and women in it for seven days. After he dug them up again, he found them lifeless, this being regarded as the origin of death among men.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Takaro, Mer̄avtit, Merawehih, Tagaro, Qasavara, Vinmara, Ro-Lei, To-Kabinana, To-Karvuvu
- enemy of
- Qat
- allied with
- Qat
- syncretized with
- Māui
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Marawa, an envious man, saw what Qat had made and took another kind of wood and gave them life. When he saw them move, he dug a pit and covered the bottom with coconut fronds, burying his men and women in it for seven days.”
#18368 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“a companion, Marawa [marawa], who takes the form of a spider...Marawa, envious of Qat's creations, carved his own figures and brought them to life, but then grew tired of them and buried them for a week...this is how death came to be”
#32202 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5