Pohnpei

Nan Mwoluhsei, as seen from Nan Dowas. Also called “Sharks Corner”, where, according to tradition, all Pohnpeians had to show their courage in a ritual to get permissions from the gods to enter Nan Madol. De visitor had to take a stone, say a magic incantation to that stone, throw it from the ten metre-high rock into the sea and then jump himself and swim for a while to lift the taboo to enter Madol. This custom came from the time of the Saudeleurs, when the waters around Mwoluhsei were inhabited by a huge shark, Oun Mwoluhsei and his female companion Leilan Mwoluhsei. Only men who knew the incantation could do this: the sharks were told by the stone there was food elsewhere, so the man was not attacked.