Condor

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

• Coyote

Domains

• sky and carrion birds

Powers

• to father the hero Falcon from an egg laid on his rock

Relations

• father of: Falcon

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