Kanna Kamuy
Ainu · deity · primordial · deity
Kanna Kamuy is the Ainu god of thunder, lightning and storm — kanna meaning 'thunder' and 'that which is on high'. He is recorded in flying-dragon form (whence his conflation with the serpent/dragon kamuy), and the lesser storm-kamuy, each riding its own cloud, are reckoned his children. In the common cosmogonic account he accompanies Kamuy Fuchi the hearth-goddess in her descent from heaven and is named among her parents; and the existing corpus already ties him to the culture-hero, whose entry (ainu_okikurmi) records Okikurmi as 'born of thunder-god Kanna-kamuy and the elm spirit'. He is authored here as a deity with no attested divine parent of his own.
Children
Domains
- thunder
- storms
- sky
Powers
- Hurl the thunder and lightning across the sky
- Fly across the heavens in the form of a dragon
- Father the lesser storm-kamuy who ride the clouds
Relations
- father of: Okikurmi
- ally: Kamuy Fuchi