Qasavara
deity earth Melanesian single tradition · 2
Qasavara is a spirit from Melanesian mythology, more precisely from the Banks Islands in the northern part of Vanuatu. The name Qasavara [k͡pʷasaβara] is itself from the language of Mota, but the same deity is known under other names in neighboring islands.
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Relationships
- enemy of
- Qat
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Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“In the Mota version of the myth, Qat, the Great Spirit who made everything, and his twelve brothers were invited to spend the night in the house of a giant named Qasavara. The giant intended to kill them while they slept and eat them, but Qat opened a crack in one of the beams of the house and the brothers hid inside the beam.”
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“how they all had to defeat the giant of that island, Qasavara”
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