Handsome Lake

Parentage

• mother: AliquipisoSon of the Seneca woman of the Wolf Clan who was also mother of Cornplanter.Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1970) (secondary)

Domains

• prophet

Powers

• receives the Gaiwiio (Good Word) from four heavenly messengers in a trance

Epithets

• Ganyodaiyo' Seneca · Ganyodaiyo · nameHandsome Lake / Large Beautiful Lake (a hereditary Seneca sachem name)Wikipedia, 'Handsome Lake' (secondary)

Relations

• half sibling: CornplanterHalf-brother of Cornplanter through their shared Seneca mother. The existing iroquois_cornplanter entry names Sganyodaiyo (Handsome Lake) as his half-brother in prose.Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1970) (secondary)
• mother: AliquipisoSon of the Seneca woman of the Wolf Clan who was also mother of Cornplanter.Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1970) (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Arthur C. Parker, The Code of Handsome Lake, the Seneca Prophet (1913) (secondary); Anthony F. C. Wallace, The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca (1970) (secondary)