...in all things, right or wrong. The worship of the Ani, or deified ancestors, coupled with a sort of totemism, is the backbone of the Ponapean faith. Every...beneficent, the greater part malignant. All these Ani are honoured under the guise of some special bird, fish, or tree in which they are supposed to...

...„Every village, every valley, hill or stream, has its „genius loci", every family its household-god, every clan its presiding spirit, every tribe its tutelary...events and phenomena have their supernatural patron or master spirit. The gloomy fancy of the Ponapean peoples the swamp, the reef, the mountain and the hanging...

...Exploring 1 FW Christian, The Caroline Expedition, Ethnography and PhiloIslands, p. 75. logy, p. 84. Ponapean faith. Every village, every valley, hill,...beneficent, the greater part malignant. All these Ani are honoured under the guise of some special bird, fish, or tree in which they are supposed to...

...Islands, every village, every valley, hill, or stream has its genius loci, every family its household-god, every clan its presiding spirit, every tribe its tutelary...beneficent, the greater part malignant. All these Ani [deified ancestors] are honoured under the guise of some special bird, fish, or tree in which they...

...in all things, right or wrong. The worship of the Ani, or deified ancestors, coupled with a sort of totemism, is the backbone of the Ponapean faith. Every...beneficent, the greater part malignant. All these Ani are honoured under the guise of some special bird, fish, or tree in which they are supposed to...