Deganawida
Iroquois · mortal · confederacy foundation · Recorded classification
Domains
- lawgiver
Powers
- brings the Great Law of Peace and binds the Five Nations into one Confederacy
- founds the Condolence rite, clearing grief from the mind with strings of wampum
Epithets
- the Peacemaker title used in place of his name, held too sacred to speak in many communitiesWikipedia, 'Deganawida' (secondary)
Relations
- ally: HayowenthaCo-founder of the Confederacy with Hayowentha, who voiced his message. The existing iroquois_hayowentha entry names Deganawida throughout its prose.Iroquois oral tradition (Great Law of Peace) (secondary)
- ally: AtotarhoConverted the sorcerer Atotarho through the combing ritual; Atotarho became the first Tadodaho. The existing iroquois_atotarho entry names Tekanawíta the Great Peacemaker in prose.Iroquois oral tradition (Great Law of Peace) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Iroquois oral tradition of the founding of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (secondary); Mann and Fields, A Sign in the Sky: Dating the League of the Haudenosaunee (1997) (secondary)