Shakok is the spirit of winter in the Keresan tale of the seasons preserved from Acoma and Laguna. He holds the land in cold, his coming marked by ice, snow, and the stilling of all growth, and Yellow Woman is his wife in the barren season. When Miochin, the spirit of summer, arrives clothed in green and warmth, the two spirits meet in a contest of opposed powers; Shakok is overcome and yields Kochininako. The narrative closes not in the annihilation of winter but in a compact between the two spirits to share the year, Shakok ruling the cold months and Miochin the warm, so that the alternation of the seasons is understood as the standing agreement of these two named powers.