First Man to Die
Kiwai · demigod · mythic ancestral · demigod
Culture-hero / first-ancestor-of-death tier, rendered demigod given his world-shaping and life-after-death powers. Landtman's 1917 folk-tales and 1927 monograph are the standard primary sources. Name variants (Sido / Sído / Hido / Iko / Soido) occur across Fly-delta and Trans-Fly versions; English-leading 'First Man to Die', vernacular Sido in term. Vital status deceased: he is precisely the prototype of human death, though he persists as lord of Adiri.
Domains
- death and the afterworld
- fertility and plants
- shapeshifting and transformation
Powers
- OPEN the road to the land of the dead
- TRANSFORM his shape across the world
Epithets
- Sido
Relations
- spouse: Mistress of the Land of the Dead