Ejoni
Luiseno & Acjachemen (Juaneno) · mortal · Luiseno & Acjachemen (Juaneno) traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Ejoni is the first man of the coastal Acjachemen creation recorded by Boscana. Nocuma, having made the world and steadied it with the rock Tosaut, formed him out of the earth as the first human being; afterward the creator made the first woman, Ae. Ejoni and Ae stand as the primordial human couple from whom the people descend in this account.
Parentage
- parent: NocumaGeronimo Boscana, 'Chinigchinich' (c. 1822), annotated ed. Harrington (1934), ch. 3. (primary)
Domains
- primordial ancestry
Powers
- stands as first ancestor of humankind
Relations
- parent: NocumaGeronimo Boscana, 'Chinigchinich' (c. 1822), annotated ed. Harrington (1934), ch. 3. (primary)
- spouse: AeGeronimo Boscana, 'Chinigchinich' (c. 1822), annotated ed. Harrington (1934), ch. 3. (primary)
Sources
- Ejoni is the first man, created by Nocuma out of the earth, in the Playano Acjachemen creation recorded by Boscana.: Geronimo Boscana, 'Chinigchinich' (c. 1822), annotated ed. John P. Harrington (1934), ch. 3. (primary)