Tawiskaron

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

• mother: TekawerahkwaSon of Tekawerahkwa, whose side he tore in being born.Hewitt (1903) (primary)

Domains

• destruction and winter

Powers

• Make the hardships of the world — rapids, frost, thorns and monsters

Epithets

• Hah-qweh-da-et-gah Iroquoian · Hahgwehdaetgah · lifelongthe Evil Mind / Evil SpiritHarriet Maxwell Converse, Myths and Legends of the New York State Iroquois (1908) (secondary)
• Tawiskaron Mohawk · Tawiskaron · lifelongFlint; the Flinty OneJ. N. B. Hewitt, Iroquoian Cosmology (1903) (secondary)

Relations

• mother: TekawerahkwaSon of Tekawerahkwa, whose side he tore in being born.Hewitt (1903) (primary)
• sibling: TeharonhiawakoTwin brother of Sapling.Hewitt (1903) (primary)
• enemy: TeharonhiawakoCosmic adversary of the Good Mind.Hewitt (1903) (primary)

Sources

• existence: Hewitt, Iroquoian Cosmology, BAE 21st Annual Report (1903) (primary)