Kuksu
Pomo · deity · primordial · deity
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