Abaia is an aquatic creature similar to a huge magical eel from Melanesian mythology (one of the traditional divisions of Oceania), according to this mythology, the Abaia is a type of large eel that lives at the bottom of lakes. sweet in Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
The Abaia is said to regard all creatures in the lake as his children and furiously protects them against anyone who wants to harm or disturb them. It is said of the Abaia, that those foolish enough to try to catch fish in a lake where this creature is immediately engulfed by a great wave, caused by the tail of the Abaia.
Another version of the legend tells that if someone harmed a creature that lives where the Abaia is located, it would cause a great storm of rain flooding the land and drowning all those who caused damage in its territory.
While the more fantastical elements of the Abaia story are evidently the by-products of primal fears and folkloric lore, it has been suggested that the Abaia legend may have its origins in encounters with undiscovered actual species of gigantic eels that inhabit the bottom of these remote lakes.