Child of the Water

Monster-slaying twin culture-hero classed 'demigod' (son of a goddess and the Sun). Apache Tóbájíshchíní (cf. Navajo Tóbájíshchíní); in Chiricahua/Mescalero he, not Killer of Enemies, is the principal hero.

Parentage

• White Painted Woman

Domains

• monster slaying
• protection

Powers

• slay the monsters that devour people
• endure his father the Sun's tests
• Endures the Sun's ordeals to be acknowledged as his son

Epithets

• Child of the Water

Relations

• twin sibling: Killer of Enemies

Sources

• Morris E. Opler, 'Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians,' Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society 37 (1942).
• Pliny Earle Goddard, 'Myths and Tales from the San Carlos Apache' (1918) and 'Myths and Tales from the White Mountain Apache' (1919).