Kivish Atakvish
Luiseno & Acjachemen (Juaneno) · numen · Luiseno & Acjachemen (Juaneno) traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Kivish Atakvish, a name rendered roughly as 'empty' or 'vacant', is the primordial emptiness that stands at the head of the Luiseno creation recorded by DuBois. In the esoteric cosmogony a series of such self-existent conditions succeed one another in the void, each named, until the emptiness brings forth Tukmit the Sky and Tamaayawut the Earth, the brother-sister pair whose union produces the ordered world. Sources differ on whether Kivish Atakvish is best understood as a personal maker-being or as a personification of the abstract primal void; the ethnographic texts, which preserve the names as a chanted genealogy of first things, leave the question open.
Children
Domains
- cosmogony
Powers
- produces the first pair out of emptiness
Relations
- child: TukmitConstance Goddard DuBois, 'The Religion of the Luiseno Indians,' UC-AAE 8:3 (1908). (secondary)
- child: TomaiyowitConstance Goddard DuBois, 'The Religion of the Luiseno Indians,' UC-AAE 8:3 (1908). (secondary)
Sources
- Kivish Atakvish is the first of a sequence of self-existent primordial states in the Luiseno cosmogony, from which the Sky and Earth are produced.: Constance Goddard DuBois, 'The Religion of the Luiseno Indians of Southern California,' UC-AAE 8:3 (1908). (secondary)