Kuksu

Creator/healing-spirit classed 'deity'. In creation he is Marumda's elder-brother co-creator (de Angulo & Benson); in ritual he is the masked healing-spirit of the Kuksu system (Loeb). Cf. Wintun/Maidu cognates documented by Kroeber.

Domains

• creation
• healing

Powers

• help create the world with Marumda
• embody the impersonated healing-spirit of the dance
• Appear as the Big Head healing-spirit of the dance

Epithets

• Kuksu

Relations

• sibling: Marumda

Sources

• Jaime de Angulo & William Ralganal Benson, 'The Creation Myth of the Pomo Indians,' Anthropos 27 (1932).
• Edwin M. Loeb, 'The Western Kuksu Cult,' UC Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology vol. 33 (1932).