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{{Short description|God of the light and gentle breeze}}
'''Fisaga''' in [[Samoan mythology]] is a light and the gentle breeze. In one Samoan legend, [[Tiʻitiʻi]] imprisons the winds one by one in his canoe or calabash, leaving only Fisaga free.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/mythslegendsof00jean |title=MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF THE POLYNESIANS |author=Johannes Carl Andersen |publisher=C. E. TUTTLE |location=Rutland, VT |year=1969 |pages=218–219 |isbn=9780804804141 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document//Volume_5_1896/Volume_5%2C_No._1%2C_March_1896/Jottings_on_the_mythology_and_spirit-lore_of_old_Samoa%2C_by_John_B._Stair%2C_p_33-57/p1 |title=JOTTINGS ON THE MYTHOLOGY AND SPIRIT-LORE OF OLD SAMOA |author=John B. Stair |journal=Journal of the Polynesian Society |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=57 |date=1896 |accessdate=30 December 2021 |archive-date=11 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210211032456/http://www.jps.auckland.ac.nz/document/Volume_5_1896/Volume_5%2C_No._1%2C_March_1896/Jottings_on_the_mythology_and_spirit-lore_of_old_Samoa%2C_by_John_B._Stair%2C_p_33-57/p1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other versions of the story attribute this to [[Māui (mythology)|Maui]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Faber |first1=Pamela |last2=Rull|first2=Laura  |editor-last=Grygiel |editor-first=Marcin |title=Cognitive Approaches to Specialist Languages |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |date=2017 |pages=419–442 |chapter=Chapter 19: Written In The Wind: Cultural Variation In Terminology |isbn=978-1-4438-5515-0}}</ref>

In the [[Samoan language]], fisaga refers to a “gentle, pleasant wind associated with good weather.”<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lefale |first1=Penehuro Fatu |date=2010 |title=Ua 'afa le AsoStormy weather today: Traditional ecological knowledge of weather and climate - The Samoa experience |journal=Climatic Change |volume=100 |issue= 2|pages=317–335 |doi= 10.1007/s10584-009-9722-z|bibcode=2010ClCh..100..317L |doi-access=free }}</ref>

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[[Category:Polynesian gods]]
[[Category:Sky and weather gods]]
[[Category:Wind deities]]


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