The creator-goddess of the Indonesian island of Nias. She created the Earth by collecting all the dirt of her body and kneading it into a small ball on her knee. She became pregnant and gave birth to a man and a women, and they became the first people and lived in fertile world.
Mother Dao is called "The Turtle-like" because the inhabitants of Nias perceive the horizon on the beach as half-curved, reminding them of a shell of a turtle.