Miwok · numen · myth age (first people / animal people time) · numen
Ke'-lok the North Giant is a man-eating being of the Miwok myth-age whose home lay at Tah-lah'-wit, the north. In Merriam's Sacramento-river cycle he is described as Wek'-wek's elder kinsman; the two fight a great contest at the giant's roundhouse, and when Wek'-wek finally kills him by striking his one vulnerable spot, Ke'-lok's burning body sets the whole world aflame — the Miwok account of the world fire.
Domains
north and world fire
Powers
to withstand all wounds except a strike to his one vulnerable spot
to hurl red-hot rocks at his enemies
Sources
C. Hart Merriam, The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1910
A. L. Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78, 1925