Condor
Miwok · demigod · myth age (first people / animal people time) · Recorded classification
Mol'-luk the Condor is one of the great First People of Miwok (Mewan) mythology as recorded by C. Hart Merriam. In the plains and Sierra Miwok cycles he is the companion of O-let'-te (Coyote-man) and the father of Wek'-wek the Falcon, who hatches from an egg on Condor Rock and later searches the world for his father. His genealogy — Coyote, Condor, Falcon — forms the central divine family of the Miwok creation cycle.
Parentage
- parent: Coyote
Domains
- sky and carrion birds
Powers
- to father the hero Falcon from an egg laid on his rock
Relations
- father of: FalconIn the Sacramento-river Miwok accounts Wek'-wek the Falcon is the son of Mol'-luk the Condor and grandson of O-let'-te the Coyote-man.C. Hart Merriam, The Dawn of the World, 1910 (secondary)
Sources
- Mol'-luk the Condor-man is a First-People being of Miwok mythology, companion of Coyote-man and father of the hero Wek'-wek the Falcon.: 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)