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Alchera - The remote period of time in which the ancestral spirits of the aboriginal tribes in Australia walked the earth.

Altjira - The otiose sky father of the Ardana tribes in central Australia. He is conceived as a man in the sky with feet like an emu. He is self-conceived. He is looked upon as the remote deity of dreamtime.

Atea - In tuamotuan mythology, the original moving sky space, a shapeless being. Atea was made into the sky god and Fa'ahotu became his wife.

Auwa - The sacred places of the origin of the Pulwaiya, ancestors. Among the Wikmunkan tribesmen of northern Australia, the auwa or Totem centers are the breeding places of birds and animals.

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Bagadjimbri - The Karadjeri in northwestern Australis attribute everything to the two ancestral brothers call Bagadjimbri. Prior to their rising from the ground as two dingoes, the earth was featureless. Nothing lived until they made two waterholes. They are also credited with shaping genital organs for sexless people.

Baiame - The totemic ancestor of the Kamilorai tribe of New South Wales. He was an ancient sky god and the father of all things. He was the master of life and death.

Bamapana - The trickster hero of the Murngin in northern Australia. The quarrels and misunderstandings he caused were innumerable.

Banoi - One of the names used in the New Hebrides for the land of the dead. Banoi has all of the amenities found in the real world except for gardens.

Bobbi-bobbi - One of the ancestral snakes of the Binbinga, an aboriginal people living in northern Australia.

Bue - In Gilbertise mythology, son of a woman magically impregnated by the sun. Bue assaulted the sun god and obtained his desire, cleverness and knowledge. Bue was a cultural founder hero. He taught men how to build canoes and houses, how to raise winds by magic and how to ensure health and prosperity.

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Dhakan - The rainbow, an ancestral spirit part fish that resides in deep water holes was the belief the Kabi tribe of Australia had.

Djanggawuls - The divine trio of north Australian mythology. Two sisters and a brother who came to the earth via beralku, the island of spirits or the dead, and gave the landscape its shape and vegetation.

Dudugera - In Papuan mythology, the leg child who became the sun.

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Goga - The Massim people of Papua believe that the origin of the fire was an old woman named Goga, a rain goddess and fire goddess.

Gora-daileng - In the Caroline Islands the god who punished the wicked after death.

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Hakawau - The pre-eminent Maori sorcerer. He attained fame by the overthrow of the magical woodenhead belonging to the sorcerers Puarta and Tautohito.

Haumea - The mysterious fertility goddess of Hawaiian mythology. Haumea was sometimes identified with the earth goddess Papa. Haumea changed herself by using rebirth.

Hiyoyoa - Among the Wagawaga tribes of Papua, the underworld. The lord of this place is Tumudurere.

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Icho Kalakal - A semi-legendary chief. According to the Caroline islanders, he was the leader of a great invasion from the south, presumable Melanesia.

Iki-haveve - The Papuan description of the ecstatic cult that arose in Vailala about 1919. The word means 'belly don't know'.

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Kahausibware - A serpentine female spirit revered in the Solomon Islands.

Kai-n-tiku-aba - The sacred tree of Samoa.

Kamapua'a - A popular figure in Hawaiian mythology. With his enormous snout he dug the earth and raised a great mound, a hill for the gods, a hill with a precipice in front. Possibly, this legend refers to the stronghold of his descendants.

Kane - In late Hawaiian mythology the chief god of generation, he had a dazzling phallus like the Polynesian trickster hero Maui. He was the maker of the upper and lower heavens and the earth.

Kava - An intoxicating drink brewed from the root or leaves of a plant of the pepper family. It is important in the Polynesian ceremonies and is sometimes used to quiet hunger.

Kumu-honua - Literal meaning: 'earth beginning'. The first man of Hawaiian mythology. His and his wife's, Lalo-honua, fate was much the same as that of Adam and Eve. They succumbed to temptation.

Kunapipi - The mother goddess of the aboriginal tribes of northern Australia.

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Laufakanaa - The winf god of Ata, a low Tongan island. According to legend, the sky god Tammapoulialamafoa sent Laufakanaa down to earth as the ruler of Ata and the controller of the winds.

Lioumere - A ghastly spirit of the Caroline islands. When this female demon with long iron teeth came to visit that Island, many people were usually cautious about their behavior.

Loa - The supreme being and creator deity of the Marshall Islands a parallel of the Tahitian Ta'aroa.

Lugeilan - Lugelian came down from the sky to teach men for the first time according to the Caroline islanders. His specific contributions were tattooing, hairdressing, and agriculture. He was always connected with coconut palm.

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Mangar-kunjer-kuja - A lizard ancestor whose gifts include life, circumcision, subincision, the stone knife, fire, the spear, the shield, the boomerang, and a sacred object called tjurunga that linked man to his ancestor and afforded protection from harm.

Marawa - The Melanesian spider spirit. Marawa was responsible for making man a mortal being.

Matagaigai - The Papuan tree spirit. The male is described as an ordinary man while the female has one large and one small breast.

Maui - The diminutive Polynesian culture hero and trickster. He appears in the myths of New Zealand to Hawaii and enjoys the reputation of a kind of Heracles.

Menehune - A mythical race of Pygmies. The Hawaiians believed they were two feet in height and the bow legged forms were encountered in the forests.

Minawara - One of the ancestral heroes of the Nambutji tribe and along with the other hero, Multultu, was a kangaroo man.

Mokoi - The Murngin in northern Australia believe that death is caused by mokoi, which is to ritual uncleanliness

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Naniumlap - The god of fertility and festivity in the Caroline islands.

Nareau - The creator deity of the Gilbertese traditions.

Ndauthina - The Fijian god of seafaring, fishing and fire.

Ndengei - The Serpentine creator of Fiji.

Nei Tituaabine - The Gilbertese vegetation goddess.

Njirana - Njirana is associated with dogs. He killed all of the bad ones and saved the good ones, the ancestors of today's dogs.

Nu'u - The Hawaiian Noah.

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Oa Rove - A Papuan deity of unlimited life and strength. The Roro-speaking tribes of the south regard him as the changer god, who has the power of transfiguration.

Olofat - The Micronesian hero in the Caroline Islands. He was the son of Lugelian, a deity identified with the trickster god Luk.

Oro - The Tahitian war god. In time of peace, he was called 'Oro of the spear laid down'.

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