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In Zuni mythology, Achiyalatopa is a celestial giant monster with feathers of flint knives.
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In Iroquois mythology, Adekagagwaa is the spirit of summer who rests during the winter in the south.
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In Navajo mythology, Ahsonnutli is the immortal who created earth and sky, and keeps them apart by propping sky on four giants placed at the four compass points. The winds and storms are then caused by the panting of the giants as they bear the weight of sky.
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In Huron mythology, Airsekui is the great spirit. He is invoked at times of great danger.
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In Cheyenne mythology, Aktunowihio is the soul of the earth. A subterranean spirit.
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In Zuni mythology, Amitolane is the rainbow spirit.
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In Dakota mythology, Angpetu Wi is the sun spirit.
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In Dakota mythology, Anpao is the spirit of the dawn.
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In Iroquois mythology, Ataentsic is the goddess of the earth. She was the Woman Who fell from the sky and creatress of the sun and moon. It is she who gives counsel in dreams.
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In Zuni mythology, Awonawilona was the divine Shehe from Whose being flowed forth the mists of increasing and the streams of growing.
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In Pawnee mythology, Chahuru is the spirit of water.
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In Abnaki mythology, the Chenoo were stone giants versed in hunting who were invoked to assist the hunters.
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In Navajo Indian mythology, a chindi is the ghost left behind when a person dies. The chindi is all that was bad of the person, and is something to be dreaded for fear of it attacking the living and making them sick. The Navajo believe that after a person dies their name should never be spoken, in case the chindi hears you calling and comes and makes you ill.
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In Pawnee mythology, Chixu are the spirits of the dead.
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In North American Indian mythology, Coyote is the trickster deity who assumes innumerable names and forms. It is believed that it was his desire to make the life of man more interesting, which caused the creation of sickness, sorrow, and death. Destructive natural phenomena, as well as inventions which are of benefit to mankind, are believed to be the outcome of Coyote's creative but mischievous power.
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In Cherokee mythology, Dayunsi made the earth. In the days when no worlds existed but sky and ocean, all iving things were crammed together in sky, and were crying out for living space. Dayunsi alone lived in the ocean and dived to the bottom and brough up a speck of mud which the Powerful One, the Creator, hung from the sky on ropes one at each compass point. As soon as the earth was dry the creatures of sky let themselves down on ropes to tenant it.
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In Iroquois mythology, Eithinoha is the mother earth, and mother of Onatah. She is associated with agricultural fertility, spring and summer.
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In North American Indian mythology Enumclaw and Kapoonis were two mortal twins who sought spirit servants to give them powers over other mortals. Enumclaw tamed a fire spirit and learned how to toss fragments of fire, Kapoonis tamed a rock spirit and learned how to toss boulders. They then terrorised civilization until Father Sky, so alarmed took them into his kingdom and made them spirits, Enumclaw becoming lightning, and Kapoonis thunder.
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In Shawnee mythology, Finisher is the Great Spirit who created the universe and everything in it.
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In Iroquois mythology, Ga-oh is the wind-giant. His house is guarded by a bear, whose prowling brings the north wind; a panther whose whining brings the westerly wind; a moose whose breathing brings the wet east wind and a fawn whose returning to its mother brings the gentle south wind.
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In Iroquois mythology, the Gahonga are the jogah of rocks and rivers.
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In Iroquois mythology, the Gandayah are the jogah who tend the earth's fertility.
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In Apache mythology, the Gans were mountain spirits sent to teach the Apache the arts of civilisation. But they went away because they were distressed by the corruption of people.
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In Cherokee mythology, Geyaguga is the moon spirit.
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In Iroquois mythology, Gluskap was the good creator god ruling light, and the twin brother of Malsum.
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In Iroquois mythology, Gohone is the spirit of winter.
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In Iroquois mythology, Great Head was a malevolent enormous head poised on slender legs dwelling on a rugged rock.
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In the myths of the Wiyot people of Northern California, Gudratrigakwitl created the universe by the unusual method of putting his hands together and then spreading the palms and fingers wide, like wings. The whole created world lies safe between these outspread hands, and despite the evil and cruelty it contains, in his benevolence he has never yet been moved to clap them together and end it.
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In Iroquois mythology, Ha Wen Neyu is the great spirit.
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In Dakota mythology, Hanghepi is the spirit of the night moon.
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In Navajo mythology, Hastsehogan is the god of houses.
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In Navajo mythology, Hastseltsi is the god of racing.
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In Navajo mythology, Hastsezini is the fire-god.
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In Cheyenne mythology, Heammawihio is the great spirit.
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In Huron mythology, Heng is the god of thunder.
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In Iroquois mythology, Hino is the thunder god, guardian of the skies.
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In Dakota mythology, Hokewingla is a turtle spirit who lives in the moon.
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In Pawnee mythology, Hoturu is the wind spirit.
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In Pima mythology, Humanmaker was the creator who made mankinf by making clay models and baking them in an oven, with a little help and hinderance from Coyote.
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In Huron mythology, Ioskeha was the all-good twin brother of Tawiskara, grandson of Ataentsic. He duelled with his brother for control of the world, each brother taking up whatever weapon he could find. Tawiskara fought with a rose-twig bu Ioskeha used a stag's antlers and won. Tawiskara fled into exile, weeping flint tears, and
Ioskeha celebrated his victory and his power in the world by creating the Huron people.
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In Iroquois mythology, jogah are dwarf nature spirits.
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In Pueblo Indian mythology, a kachina is a deified ancestral spirit. The Hopi indians, part of the Pueblo family, hold that every plant, animal and aspect of life and death is governed by a different kachina, which look after the welfare of the Hopi people.
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In Cherokee mythology, Kanati was the first man and ancestor of the Cherokee. He was married to Selu.
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In Iroquois mythology, Keneun is chief of the Thunderbirds. He is an invisible spirit. Thunder is the sound of his beating wings and lightning his flashing eyes.
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In Cheyenne mythology, Maheo was the all-spirit who existed before existence and created the primordial ocean and birds to fly over it from his thoughts alone, and later created the land and all the animals and plants.
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In Iroquois mythology, Malsum was the god of darkness, creating monsters and plagues to torment mankind. he gave plants spines, insects stings and animals teeth and claws to hurt man. He was killed by his twin brother Gluskap in a battle for control of the universe.
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In North American Indian mythology, Manabozho is a mischievious giant.
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In Iroquois mythology, the Ohdows are the jogah who control the underworld spirits and prevent them coming to the surface.
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In Iroquois mythology, Onatah was the corn goddess. She was the daughter of Eithinoha. She was kidnapped by the ruler of the underworld. her mother searched everywhere for her, grieving and while she grieved no crops grew. Finally the sun realised where she was, split open the ground and rescued her. However, the spirits of the underworld missed Onatah, and whenever the sun sleeps they snatch her back, and then a vast human effort in ceremonies and offerings are needed to waken the sun and rescue her.
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In Iroquois mythology, Oshadagea (the giant dew-eagle) is the bringer of rain. When demons try to wipe out man with forest fires, Oshadagea scoops up the oceans in the hollow between his wings and flies over the fires dousing them.
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In Blackfoot mythology, Poia was the son of the Morning Star and the mortal woman Soatsaki. The Morning Star took Soatsaki to the court of his father the Sun in Heaven, hoping to grant her immortality. But she preferred Earth to Heaven and the Sun, insulted, sent her back to Earth to bear her son, and then let her die. The child was born with a port-wine birthmark- hence his name - and grew up with the Blackfoot people. He asked to marry the chiefs daughter, but was rejected as ' blemished'. He set out to find his grandfather the Sun and ask for help, leaving the land and walking West across the sea on the path made by the Sun's reflection on the water. In Heaven he rescued his father Morning Star from seven birds of darkness, and the Sun rewarded him by removing his birthmark. He hurried down to Earth, along the Milky Way, and took his mortal beloved back into Heaven just as his father had fetched his mother there long before.
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In Pueblo mythology, Sussistanako (Thinking-Woman) is a goddess of creation. A spider woman and a spirit and power of intelligence. She who thinks into being.
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In Cherokee mythology, Sutalidihi is the sun-spirit.
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In Dakota mythology, Takuskanskan is the wind-spirit and trickster.
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In Hopi mythology, Tcolawitze is the fire-spirit.
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In Iroquois mythology, the flying head was a giant winged head with fire for eyes, fangs like knives and wings of strands of hair. It preyed on animals at night, and when it found a human settlement it descended upon it and set on the farm animals and the owners. The flying head was destroyed after eating roasted chestnuts and the fire they were roasted in.
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In Pawnee mythology, Tirawa created the world in the shape of a bowl floating in space. He gave the stars the task of supporting the world and protecting it. He ordered the Moon and Sun to mate and produce a son and he ordered the Evening and Morning stars to mate and produce a daughter, these became the parents of the human race.
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In Apache mythology, tzi-daltai are charms or fetishes carved from the wood of trees struck by lightning into a semblance of a human being and worn for good luck.
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In Dakota mythology, Wakan Tanka was a creator. He existed alone in the void before existence where he was lonely, so he decided to make company for himself by dividing into four. He made earth, and mated with her to create the sky, then he mated with earth and sky to make the sun. Afterwards creation continued to grow as the leaves and twigs grow on a tree.
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In Dakota mythology, Wakinyan is the thunder-spirit.
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In Sioux mythology, Wakonda is the Great Spirit who keeps the balance in the universe, revealing the great secrets to only a few favoured shamans.
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In Ojibwa mythology, the Windigo are cannibalistic monsters who dwell in the forests preying on unsuspecting humans.
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