All-Spirit

Supreme creator/sky-spirit classed 'deity'. Cheyenne Ma'heo'o ('All-Spirit', also 'Sacred/Great One'); the doubled form Maheo is the conventional English rendering.

Domains

• creation
• sky

Powers

• create the world from the primal water
• give the people their sacred covenants

Epithets

• Maheo
• Ma'heo'o

Relations

• mentor: Sweet Medicine
• mentor: Erect Horns

Sources

• George Bird Grinnell, 'The Cheyenne Indians,' 2 vols. (Yale, 1923).
• Peter J. Powell, 'Sweet Medicine,' 2 vols. (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1969).