Kaikai Vilu
Mapuche · demigod · mythic · Recorded classification
Sea-serpent who raised a world-flood and broke the lowlands into the southern islands; rival of the earth-serpent Trentren Vilu.
Domains
- sea
Powers
- Pour out the sea to flood the plains and forests
- Shatter the lowlands and scatter their fragments as islands
Epithets
- Kai-Kai Vilu The serpent of the sea and the waters who looses the flood against humankindMapuche oral tradition (the epew of the great flood) (secondary)
Relations
- enemy: Trentren ViluReciprocal of mapuche_trentren_vilu.enemy — Earth-serpent who raised the mountains against Kaikai Vilu's world-flood, saving humankind.Tomas Guevara, Folklore araucano (1911) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Latcham (1924); recorded Chilote-Mapuche oral tradition (secondary)