Dudugera

Dudugera Oceania
In Papuan mythology, the leg child who became the sun. One day a woman who was in a garden near the ocean, seeing a great fish sporting in the surf, walked out into the water and played with it. Some time later the woman's leg, against which the fish had rubbed, began to swell and become painful until at last she got her father to make a cut in the swelling, when out popped a baby.

Dudugera, as his mother called the child, grew up in the village but his aggressiveness made him unpopular with the other boys. Fearing lest he might come to harm, Dudugera's mother determined to send him to his father. They went down to the beach, whereupon the great fish came, seized him in his mouth, and carried him far away to the east. Before this happened, Dudugera warned his mother and her relatives to take refuge under a great rock, for he was about to become the sun, the terrible affliction of the world. So they did as Dudugera suggested, and from...

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