Kishelemukong, 'he who creates us by his thoughts,' is the supreme being of Lenape (Delaware) religion. Glossed by ethnographers and in the Unami ceremonial form Gicelemû'kaong recorded by Frank Speck, the Creator made the world and the host of lesser spirit-beings, the manitowak, then withdrew from direct involvement, entrusting the world's governance to them. He is the focus of the Big House (Xingwikaon) Ceremony, the central Lenape religious observance, in which the twelve carved faces of the Big House were addressed to him in autumn thanksgiving and renewal. The Creator is typically described in impersonal terms, without fixed sex, and is conceived as the source of all the manitou powers that the Lenape venerate.