Coyote

Creator-trickster classed 'deity'. Miwok (Merriam's 'Mewan') neighbor the Pomo and share the central-California Coyote-creator and Kuksu complex; the Miwok personal name is not uniformly transcribed in the cited sources, hence term empty.

Children

• Condor

Domains

• creation
• trickery

Powers

• create the first people
• decide the coming of death

Epithets

• Coyote

Relations

• ancestor of: Falcon

Sources

• C. Hart Merriam, 'The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan (Miwok) Indians of California' (1910).
• Edward W. Gifford, 'Miwok Myths,' UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology vol. 12 (1917).