Hatsenas
Tsimshian · deity · pre flood · Recorded classification
Bird-form supernatural who took the form of a young man in winter. Married the famine-stricken chief's daughter and provided food during the hard winter; father of Asdiwal.
Children
Powers
- shapeshifting avian
- sky passage
- sustenance providing
- Move between sky and earth as a bird
- Provide food in famine
Relations
- spouse: Skeena Chief's DaughterThe bird-being of good fortune wed the famine-stricken chief's daughter on the Skeena and fed her people; their son is Asdiwal.Franz Boas, Tsimshian Mythology, 31st Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1916) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Boas, Tsimshian Mythology (1916) (primary); Lévi-Strauss, "La geste d'Asdiwal" (1958) (secondary)