Tawiskaron
Iroquois · deity · sky woman cosmogony · deity
The flinty, destructive twin (Flint, the Evil Mind) of the Haudenosaunee creation. His violent birth killed his mother; he answers his brother's good creation with hardship — rapids, frost, winter and monsters — and is overcome in their final contest, after which he rules the cold half of the year.
Parentage
Domains
- destruction and winter
Powers
- Make the hardships of the world — rapids, frost, thorns and monsters
Epithets
- Hah-qweh-da-et-gah
- Tawiskaron
Relations
- mother: Tekawerahkwa
- sibling: Teharonhiawako
- enemy: Teharonhiawako