Foam Woman
Haida · deity · mythic primordial · Recorded classification
Female founding ancestress; classed as a deity. Counterpart to Djila'qons, the ancestress of the Eagle moiety. The native Haida term was not recovered in the consulted sources, so term is left empty.
Domains
- lineage and ancestry
- primordial flood
Powers
- shoot lightning from her eyes
- give rise to the Raven-clan lineages
Sources
- Foam Woman is the primordial ancestress of the Haida Raven moiety, appearing on a reef as the great flood recedes and shooting lightning from her eyes.: Swanton, John R. Contributions to the Ethnology of the Haida, AMNH Memoirs 8, 1905. (secondary); Haida Gwaii Museum, 'Haida Supernatural World' exhibition. (secondary)