Burotu

Burotu

In the Melanesian mythology of Fiji, Burotu is the paradise-underworld. Newly-dead souls are judged by Degei, and a few go to Burotu. The rest go to Murimuria.

ee also

*Bulu, said to be the name for the Fijian 'land of death'.
*Pulotu, a similar concept in the Polynesian cultures of Tonga and Samoa

References

*T. Williams, J. Calvert, "Fiji and the Fijians", Heylin, 1858.


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