Fanuankuwel Explained

Fanuankuwel is a "place of a whale with two tails" location in Pacific and Polynesian mythology, recorded in the traditional celestial navigation techniques of the Caroline Islands. Part of the Trigger fishes tied together mnemonic-navigational system, it is sometimes grouped with Kafeŕoor as a 'ghost island'.^{[1] [2]}

See also

• Celestial navigation
• Kafeŕoor
• Polynesian mythology
• Polynesian navigation
• Micronesian navigation
• Wa (watercraft)

Notes and References

1. Web site: The organisation of navigational knowledge on Puluwat . Saul H. Riesenberg . 1972 . . 8 September 2020 . 18 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211018230012/http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_81_1972/Volume_81,_No._1/The_organisation_of_navigational_knowledge_on_Puluwat,_by_Saul_H._Riesenberg,_p_19-56/p1?page=0&action=searchresult&target= . dead .
2. Web site: Ten Gods: A New Approach to Defining the Mythological Structures of the Indo-Europeans (sample excerpt) . Emily Lyle . 8 September 2020 . Kafeŕoor is a mythical vanishing island, Nalikáp and Nókitikiit are big waves, Máŕipeŕip (which means “small pieces”) is a very large, destructive whale, and Fanuankuwel is the place of a whale with two tails. . 9 January 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150109003222/http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/60616 . dead .