Qat (deity)
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qat-deity-180-7246186
title:
Qat (deity)
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Qat is the principal god in the oral mythology of the Banks Islands, a small archipelago of northern Vanuatu, Melanesia. Although Qat was never formally worshipped as a deity, the folklore of these once animist populations traditionally referred, and still does, to Qat as the spirit to whom we humans owe several elements of our culture: the world itself; Night; Death; women; marriage rules and incest prohibition; as well as the song language in use throughout the area, locally known as "the lang
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The principal god in the oral mythology of the Banks Islands, northern Vanuatu
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qat_(deity)
date created:
2006-05-20T02:43:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T12:00:21Z
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