Mer-serpent
The mer-serpent is depicted as a serpent with many heads, and a fishlike tail. Offerings to the Merserpent is often human hearts or the guts of land-dwelling animals, in return she lets Koanka ships travel and allow them rebirth and children.
Mer-serpent( Serpent of rebirth, Fertility, Sea water and death) she is worshiped out of fear and respect. For she controls the oceans and from it life, their seaborne culture has long depended on her good will to carry them safety across the ocean, and for good bounties. She is often entitled as the creator of islands, for according to myth was it she who destroyed the great land of Kaunkaiki and by drowing the world, leaving only the islands. They believe that upon death once soul is swalloed by one of her many heads and spit out another re-birthed by her intestines and ready for a new cycle of life. Which is why the mother's water breaks as the child is being flushed from the seas to return for another life.
The mer-serpent is the most important of the gods to the people of the Koanka, for she holds dominion over life and death, the seas and as such access to the world and foods from her boundless wealth.
Divine Domains
Life, Nature, Temptest, Death.
Holidays
The Secound month on the secound day, a humanoid creature is to be gutted alive as sacrifice to her and then given to the sea. After which the fishermen will travel out to a great catch if the sacrifice was deemed sufficient and the people devout so that a great celebration may be held for if it was, a great bounty awaits the fishermen.
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