Ansaŋetuʼakɨmi

Ansang religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Ansang people. Their religion shares similarities between several local beliefs in other islands, religious syncretism is common among many Ansang people.

Ansang cosmology give provide several interpretations of the creation of the world, the most famous is

"At the beginning the world was a ocean with no life,

one day the gods (Yüyüdengo, Losïsï and Vomüngü) came to make a big sacrifice to Sokoyoüboyo

the creator of the waters, that sacrifice was made always by the midday with a bit of fruits.

One day tired of boredom sokoyoüboyo decide change the eternal ocean the world is,

he moves around and land appear, with it the fish suddenly become the animals and from the dirt a human being emerge

it has no eyes and no mouth so it could not eat and speak, so these became the plants, seeing that sokoyoüboyo create similar creatures out of wood

and the humans could speak and see but their skulls were empty and they could not think, so these became more animals....