Uktena

Great horned serpent thick as a tree-trunk, scales blazing like fire, a diamond crest on its brow; said to have been a man transformed in a failed attempt to kill the Sun. The conjurer Aganunitsi slew one and won the Ulun'suti divining-crystal.

Domains

• monsters

Powers

• Daze and draw prey toward the blazing crest on its brow
• Be wounded only by a shot to the seventh spot from the head

Relations

• enemy: Unelanuhi

Sources

• Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900)