Nakawé

Huichol earth-grandmother and goddess of growth, savior in the flood.

Children

• Tatei Yurianaka

Domains

• earth growth
• vegetation fertility

Powers

• Makes all plants and life grow upon the earth
• Warned Watákame of the flood and saved him

Epithets

• Takutsi Nakawé

Relations

• ancestor of: Tatei Yurianaka

Sources

• Lumholtz (1900); Zingg (1938)