Modekngei

Modekngei

Palau, Oceania

Modekngei is a combination of Christianity and the traditional Palauan religion. One of its legends tells of a long-ago princess set adrift in the ocean, who luckily had a hibiscus branch and a coconut shell with her, and from these created an island where the sacred hibiscus now grows.

This entity appears in the story “23. Island Faiths”.