Puntan

Puntan religion is the traditional belief of the Chamorro of the Mariana Islands, named for one of the two creator siblings of their legend. As he lay dying, Puntan told his sister Fu'una to make his body into the world: his eyes became the sun and the moon, his eyebrows rainbows, his chest the sky.

Fu'una settled on the island of Guahan and turned herself into a giant rock, which split open and released all human beings. The ancient Chamorro venerated their ancestors but did not, it seems, worship gods in a formal religion.

In 1623 Christoph Carl Fernberger reported human sacrifice to placate a great fish. In 1672 the priest Diego Luis de San Vitores, who had baptised a child against its father's wishes, was killed together with his catechist Pedro Calungsod.