Wîsahkêcâhk

Trickster-transformer/culture-hero classed 'demigod' per schema. Plains Cree SRO wîsahkêcâhk; widely Wesakechak/Wisahketchahk; the same Algonquian figure as Anishinaabe Nanabozho. English nickname 'Whiskey Jack' is a folk-etymology of the name. No standard attested gear, hence materialCulture [].

Domains

• trickery
• transformation

Powers

• remake the earth after the flood
• name the animals and fix their natures
• trick others and bungle his own schemes
• shifts his own shape and the shapes and natures of the animals at will

Epithets

• Wîsahkêcâhk
• Whiskey Jack

Relations

• sibling: Wolf, the Trickster Younger Brother

Sources

• Leonard Bloomfield, 'Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree,' National Museum of Canada Bulletin 60 (1930).
• Leonard Bloomfield, 'Plains Cree Texts,' American Ethnological Society 16 (1934).