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Fanuankuwel

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Fanuankuwel is a "place of a whale with two tails"[1] 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'.[2][1]

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  1. 1 2 Emily Lyle. "Ten Gods: A New Approach to Defining the Mythological Structures of the Indo-Europeans (sample excerpt)". Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 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.
  2. Saul H. Riesenberg (1972). "The organisation of navigational knowledge on Puluwat". Journal of the Polynesian Society, Auckland University. Archived from the original on 18 October 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2020.