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Updated: June 8, 2025
Any passing stranger, however, was as welcome to partake as if he had been specially sent for it by Apelesa. ASOMUA First Day. This was a household god, and particularly useful to the family in detecting and telling out the name of the thief when anything was missed. He was called first day, as it was supposed that he existed in the world before mortals. LEATUALOA The long god, or the centipede.
They also prayed thus before leaving the house to go to battle: "Oh, child of the moon! Bury up your hollows And stumps of trees And lumpy stones For our running at ease." APELESA Sacred fulness. In one family this god was incarnate in the turtle.
While one of the family dared not partake, he would help a neighbour to cut up and cook one; only while he was doing that, he had a bandage tied over his mouth lest some embryo turtle should slip down his throat, grow up, and cause his death. In another family Apelesa spoke at times through an old man.
When an oven of food was opened the first basket was hung up on the outside of one of the posts of the house for the god. If the rats, or a dog, or any hungry mortal took it in the night, it was supposed that Apelesa chose to come in that form for his offering. He was also considered the guardian of the family, and if any other gods came about he frightened them away.
In another family a woman called Alaiava, or means of entertainment, was priestess of Apelesa. She prayed at parturition times, and in cases of severe illness. Her usual mode of acting the doctor was, first of all, to order down all the cocoa-nut leaf window-blinds of one end of the house. She then went into the darkened place.
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