Grizzly Bear (xáxaac) is the fierce antagonist of many tales, appearing as a devourer of travelers and, in the cycle of the Five Grizzly-Bear Sisters, as a household of murderous women whose killings are avenged. Set against the ordering work of Coyote, Grizzly embodies untamed ferocity, and encounters with the bear commonly resolve through trickery or violence. Sources vary in casting the grizzly as male or as the sisterhood of grizzly-women.