Ke'-lok the North Giant
Miwok · numen · myth age (first people / animal people time) · Recorded classification
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
- Ke'-lok is the cannibal North Giant of Miwok mythology whose death in battle with Wek'-wek the Falcon ignited the primeval world fire.: C. Hart Merriam, The Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, Arthur H. Clark Co., 1910 (secondary); A. L. Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 78, 1925 (secondary)