Holy Ones
Apache · deity · primordial / underworld emergence time · Recorded classification
A spirit-class (the Jicarilla creator-supernaturals), represented collectively and classed 'deity' per schema; 'sex':'none' for the non-gendered class. Jicarilla Hactcin ≈ 'holy/supernatural one' (cf. Navajo diyin diné'é). Distinct subfigure Black Hactcin given separately.
Domains
- creation
- emergence
Powers
- make the earth, underworld and sky
- lead the people up into this world
Relations
- companion: Black Holy OneReciprocal of apache_black_hactcin.companion — Foremost of the Jicarilla Holy Ones, who shaped the animals and the first man in the underworld before the emergence.M. E. Opler, Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians (1938) (secondary)
Sources
- The Hactcin are the Jicarilla Apache class of 'Holy Ones' / supernatural powers who create the earth and sky and lead the people's emergence into this world.: Morris E. Opler, 'Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians,' Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society vol. 31 (1938). (ethnography)