The most visible element in the culture was the production of massive statues called moai that represented deified ancestors.

The moai are chiefly the living faces (aringa ora) of deified ancestors (aringa ora ata tepuna).

Below Ranginui (sky father) and Papatuanuku (earth mother) were various gods of land, forest and sea, joined by deified ancestors over time.

The seated figures are thought to be Lycian gods or deified ancestors.

Daucina, however, has a different connotation as a Kalou yalo (deified ancestors) in other parts of Fiji.

The most visible part of the culture was the making of very large statues called moai that represented deified ancestors.

In the religious text Rajapurana Besakih, he is listed as the last deified ancestor of the Gelgel dynasty.

Its grotesque central figure represents a deified ancestor.

These empires, run by the internalized voices of deified ancestors, demanded a firm control of classes and sections of society.

The orisa, namely the "deified ancestors and/or personified natural forces" fall into two categories.