Waux
Nisga'a & Gitxsan · quartigod · Nisga'a & Gitxsan traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Waux is the son of Asdiwal by his second, Skeena-side marriage, a figure who enters the saga in its later recorded versions. He inherits his father's vocation as a hunter of mountain goats and, with it, his father's doom: pursuing goats too far upon the heights and forgetting the discipline of the hunt, he is stranded and turned to stone on the mountain, closing the saga with a repetition of Asdiwal's own petrified end. In Waux the narrative folds back on itself, showing the hunter's ambition passing from father to son and ending, both times, in the immobility of rock.
Parentage
- paternal: Asdiwal
Domains
- hunting
Powers
- hunts mountain goats
Relations
- child: AsdiwalLevi-Strauss, Claude (1967). 'The Story of Asdiwal', on Waux as son of Asdiwal. (secondary)
Sources
- Waux, son of Asdiwal by his Skeena marriage, is a mountain-goat hunter who reprises his father's fate, perishing turned to stone on the mountain; he appears in the later Boas versions of the saga.: Levi-Strauss, Claude (1967). 'The Story of Asdiwal', in The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism. (secondary); Boas, Franz (1912). Tsimshian Texts (New Series). (secondary)