K'am Ligii Hahlhaahl
Nisga'a & Gitxsan · deity · Nisga'a & Gitxsan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
K'am Ligii Hahlhaahl, the 'Chief of Heavens', is the Creator of Nisga'a tradition, the supreme sky-power presiding over the upper world. He is remembered chiefly through his grandson, the Raven-transformer Txeemsim: in the received account it is from the Chief of Heavens that daylight ultimately derives, and it is Txeemsim who, descending from his line, brought the sun into the sky so that the people no longer wandered in darkness. Less a protagonist of narrative episode than the fixed apex of the cosmos, K'amligiihahlhaahl anchors the Nisga'a understanding of a divinely ordered heaven above the human world of the Nass.
Domains
- sky
- creation
Powers
- presides over the heavens
Epithets
- K'amligiihahlhaahl — Chief of HeavensThe Canadian Encyclopedia, 'Nisga'a'. (secondary)
Sources
- The Nisga'a recognise a Creator, K'am Ligii Hahlhaahl, the 'Chief of Heavens', whose grandson Txeemsim created the sun and saved the people from wandering in darkness.: The Canadian Encyclopedia, 'Nisga'a'. (secondary); EBSCO Research Starters, 'Nisga'a'. (secondary)