Coyote
Pomo · demigod · myth age · Recorded classification
Creator-trickster classed 'demigod'. Recorded as ancestor/creator and trickster by Barrett (1933); the Pomo personal name varies by dialect and is not consistently transcribed in the cited sources, hence term empty. Distinct from the co-creators Marumda and Kuksu.
Children
Domains
- creation
- trickery
Powers
- make people and bring fire and customs
- trick others and shape the world by mischief
- Bring fire and the arts of living to the people
Sources
- Coyote is a Pomo ancestor-creator and trickster who makes people, brings fire, and orders the world, in some traditions the principal creator.: Samuel A. Barrett, 'Pomo Myths,' Bull. Public Museum of Milwaukee vol. 15 (1933). (ethnography); S. A. Barrett, 'The Ethno-Geography of the Pomo and Neighboring Indians,' UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology vol. 6 (1908). (ethnography)