Serpent spirit-being, sex unspecified in sources; classed as deity. Described variously as two-headed (a head at each end with a central human face) or, in some accounts, three-headed. Associated with the war-spirit Winalagilis.
Domains
war and protection
sea serpents
Powers
turn an adversary to stone with its glance
transform into an invincible war canoe or protective belt
Epithets
Sisiutl
Sources
Boas, Franz. The Religion of the Kwakiutl Indians, 1930.
Boas, Franz. The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians, 1897.