Double-Headed Serpent

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.