Ko'komiki'somm
Blackfoot · deity · star stories · Recorded classification
Ko'komiki'somm, the Moon — 'night light' — is the wife of the Sun (Naato'si) and second-eldest of the sacred Sky Beings. With the Sun she is the mother of the stars, foremost among them Morning Star (Ipi'sowaahs), making her the celestial mother at the head of the Morning Star / Feather Woman / Star Boy lineage already in the registry.
Domains
- moon
- night
Powers
- Gives light to the night as wife of the Sun
- Mothers the stars, foremost the Morning Star
Epithets
- Ko'komiki'somm 'the Moon' / 'night light'Grinnell, George Bird (1892). Blackfoot Lodge Tales. (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: Naato'siWife of the Sun, Naato'si.McClintock, The Old North Trail (1910) (primary); Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales (1892) (secondary)
- mother of: Ipi'sowaahsMother of Morning Star (Ipi'sowaahs), child of the Moon and the Sun.native-languages.org, 'Komorkis' and 'Apisirahts' (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Walter McClintock, The Old North Trail (1910) (primary); native-languages.org, 'Komorkis, the Blackfoot moon goddess' (secondary)