White Painted Woman

Creator-mother goddess classed 'deity'. Apache Isdzánátł'éshn ('White-Painted Woman'); 'Changing Woman' is the renewal-aspect title (cf. Navajo Asdzą́ą́ Nádleehé). Esdzanadehe is a common English-source spelling.

Children

• Child of the Water
• Killer of Enemies

Domains

• fertility
• renewal

Powers

• grow old and become young again
• bear the monster-slaying twins
• give the girls' Sunrise Ceremony
• Survives the world-flood sealed in an abalone shell

Epithets

• White Painted Woman
• 'Isdzánátł'éshn

Relations

• companion: Life-Giver
• ancestor of: Child of the Water

Sources

• Morris E. Opler, 'An Apache Life-Way' (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1941).
• Morris E. Opler, 'Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians,' Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore Society 37 (1942).