The Medeek, whose name is the Gitxsan word for grizzly bear, is the great supernatural water-grizzly of the upper Skeena, bound in tradition to the ancient town of Temlaham (Dimlahamid) and to the lake now called Seeley Lake. In the received adaawk the people of Temlaham grow proud and wasteful, and children torment the trout of the lake; roused from the water, the monstrous grizzly rises and destroys the town, one of the calamities that scatter the once-great people of Damelahamid. The beast is at length killed, and its likeness is carried as a crest upon blankets and poles, a standing reminder of the law that the animal world must be treated with respect. Barbeau collected the tradition under the title The Downfall of Temlaham.