Yanolop

In the creation myth of the Yapese, the islanders of Yap in the western Carolines, the god Gavur li yel yel makes the four layers of the cosmos, from his own dark tier to the underworld beneath the sea, and shapes the chief god Yanolop from clay.

Yanolop in turn conjures five more sky gods, who marry and beget further generations. Yälfaath the Elder, one of the first sky gods, made the first man and woman, Ganan and Nik, from earth.

Traditionally each person has two souls: one that lives on and wanders the earth, and one that dies and is eaten by the sky god Lug. After death a ritual prayer guides the soul to Gatsam, from where it may go to heaven and be judged in Yanolop's clubhouse.