Killer of Enemies
Apache · demigod · myth age / first people time · Recorded classification
Monster-slaying twin classed 'demigod'. Apache Naayéé'neizghání (cf. Navajo Naayéé'neizghání 'Monster Slayer'). Relative prominence of the twins is reversed between Western Apache (Killer of Enemies dominant) and Chiricahua/Mescalero (Child of the Water dominant) per Opler and Goddard.
Parentage
- parent: White Painted Woman
Domains
- war
- monster slaying
Powers
- war on the monsters alongside his brother
- give power over enemies and game
Epithets
- Naayéé'neizghání Monster-Slayer / Killer of EnemiesMorris E. Opler, 'Athapaskan Culture Heroes' (1938) (secondary)
Relations
- twin sibling: Child of the WaterReciprocal of apache_child_of_the_water.twin sibling — The monster-slaying twin culture-heroes; their relative prominence is reversed between Chiricahua/Mescalero and Jicarilla tellings.Harry Hoijer, Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts (1938) (secondary)
Sources
- Killer of Enemies (Naayéé'neizghání), twin of Child of the Water and son of White Painted Woman, is a monster-slaying culture-hero; dominant among Western Apache, secondary among Chiricahua/Mescalero.: Morris E. Opler, 'Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians' (1942). (ethnography); Harry Hoijer, 'Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts' (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1938). (ethnography); Pliny Earle Goddard, 'Myths and Tales from the White Mountain Apache' (1919). (ethnography)