Wolf, the Trickster Younger Brother
Cree · demigod · myth age (sacred story / âtayôhkêwin time) · Recorded classification
Authored as the named, attested younger brother of cree_wisahkecahk, who is currently recorded as solitary. Classed demigod (a being of the myth-age, brother of the transformer), paralleling the wolf-kin of Anishinaabe Nanabozho.
Domains
- transformation
- the underworld waters
Powers
- runs with Wisahkecahk as his wolf-brother and helper
- is drowned by the underwater lynxes and serpents
Relations
- sibling: WîsahkêcâhkCree wîsahkêcâhk cycle (Mahihkan the Wolf is the younger brother of Wîsahkêcâhk). (ethnography)
Sources
- Mahihkan, the Wolf, is the younger brother and companion of the Cree transformer Wisahkecahk; in many Cree narratives he is drowned and killed by the Water-Lynxes or Horned Serpents of the deep water, which earns those underwater powers the lasting enmity of Wisahkecahk.: Leonard Bloomfield, Plains Cree Texts (American Ethnological Society 16, 1934) (wîsahkêcâhk and the Wolf). (ethnography); Survey of Cree oral tradition recording Mahihkan the Wolf as the younger brother of Wîsahkêcâhk, slain by the underwater lynxes and horned serpents. (secondary)