Old Man Coyote
Crow · deity · primordial / creation time · Recorded classification
Creator-trickster ('First-Worker'/'First-Maker') classed 'deity' per schema. Akbaatatdía ('the one who made everything') is also used as a name for the supreme creator; Isáahkawuattee is the proper Coyote-trickster theonym. No standard attested personal gear, so materialCulture [].
Domains
- creation
- trickery
Powers
- raise the earth from the primal water
- shape the first people and animals
- play tricks and suffer them in turn
- travels east to west shaping land, mountains, rivers, animals and plants and giving them life
Epithets
- Old Man Coyote The creator-trickster who shaped the earth and people from mud brought up out of the watersRobert H. Lowie, The Religion of the Crow Indians (secondary)
- Akbaatatdía the one who made everything / First-Makernative-languages.org, 'Old Man Coyote (Akba Atatdia)' (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: Little CoyoteReciprocal of crow_cirape.sibling — Cirape, 'little coyote,' is Old Man Coyote's younger brother in the Crow trickster cycle.Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians (1918) (primary)
- companion: Little CoyoteReciprocal of crow_cirape.companion — Travels with Old Man Coyote as comrade and foil through the trickster tales.Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians (1918) (primary)
Sources
- Old Man Coyote (Isáahkawuattee / Akbaatatdía) is the Crow earth-diver creator and trickster who raises the land and makes the first people, often paired with a lesser Coyote (Círape).: Robert H. Lowie, 'Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians,' Anthropological Papers AMNH vol. 25 pt. 1 (1918). (ethnography); Robert H. Lowie, 'The Crow Indians' (Farrar & Rinehart, 1935). (ethnography)