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and thought he was now dead. But Lugeleng 

 looked for his son, and at last found him dead, and 

 full of worms. He raised him up in his arms, and 

 awakened him. He asked him who had killed him. 

 Olifat answered, he had not been dead, but had 

 been sleeping. Lugeleng called the fish Fela to 

 him, beat him with a club, on the head, and broke 

 tlie upper jaw : hence the form which he now has. 

 Aluelap, Lugeleng, and Olifat, now entered into 

 glory, where they are engaged in administering 

 justice. 



Others fix the number of divinities at seven, 

 namely, Ligopup, Hautal, Aluelap, Litefeo, Hula- 

 guf, Lugeleng, and Olifat. 



To the question whether other islands had the 

 same belief, several answered, That this was the 

 belief of the whole world, and the world would 

 perish when Aluelap commanded it. 



For comparison we shall communicate the doc- 

 trine of the former inhabitants of the Mariana 

 islands. Velarde, torn. ii. fbl. 291. Puntan was a 

 very wise man, who had lived many years in the 

 void space, before the creation of the heaven and 

 the earth. When he was about to die, he com- 

 missioned his sister that she should make the 

 heavens and earth out of his breast and shoulders, 

 the sun and moon out of his eyes, and the rainbow 

 out of his eye-brows. * 



* Thus in our northern mythology ; — 

 Or Yniis holdi Literal ; Out of Ymer's flesh, 



Variorth om bcavpvih Was the earth created ; 



