THE CONCORDANCE
shapeshifter
2 records across 2 traditions carry this current.
Oceania & the Pacific · 2
DakuwaqaIn iTaukei tellings across Fiji, Dakuwaqa is a shark deity and ancestral guardian of reefs and certain vanua — feared, petitioned, and still named in living oral history from Beqa to Cakaudrove, not a generic sea monster.MasalaiMasalai is a Tok Pisin category for place-bound bush and water spirits across Papua New Guinea — local owners of pools, cliffs, bends, and groves — not one creature, and not interchangeable with ancestral ghosts or tambaran.
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