Kanati

Cherokee 'Lucky Hunter', first man, husband of Selu and keeper of the game animals in a sealed cave.

Children

• the Thunder Boys

Domains

• the hunt
• wild game

Powers

• Release game animals from his sealed mountain cave
• Always return from the woods laden with game

Epithets

• Kanati latin · Kanati · oralThe Lucky Hunter; the First Man, husband of SeluJames Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (secondary)

Relations

• spouse: SeluThe Lucky Hunter and the Corn Mother are husband and wife, the first man and first woman of the Cherokee origin cycle.James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), no. 3 'Kanati and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn' (primary)

Sources

• existence: Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900) (primary)