Marumda

Creator-deity classed 'deity'. Recorded from the Eastern Pomo narrator William Ralganal Benson with Jaime de Angulo; Eastern Pomo Marúmda, Central/dialectal Madúmda. Paired with Kuksu as co-creator.

Domains

• creation
• world ordering

Powers

• create the world
• destroy and remake the world by flood and fire
• Teach the people their customs and crafts

Epithets

• Marumda

Relations

• sibling: Kuksu

Sources

• Jaime de Angulo & William Ralganal Benson, 'The Creation Myth of the Pomo Indians,' Anthropos 27 (1932).
• Samuel A. Barrett, 'Pomo Myths,' Bull. Public Museum of Milwaukee vol. 15 (1933).