Marumda
Pomo · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
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 The creator who made and remade the world; the old earth-maker of the PomoS. A. Barrett, Pomo Myths (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: KuksuMarumda of the north consults his elder brother Kuksu of the south before each making and remaking of the world in the Eastern Pomo creation.Jaime de Angulo & William Ralganal Benson, 'The Creation Myth of the Pomo Indians,' Anthropos 27 (1932) (secondary)
Sources
- Marumda (Eastern Pomo Marúmda, Central Pomo Madúmda), the 'Old Man', is the Pomo creator who makes and twice destroys-and-remakes the world with his elder brother Kuksu.: Jaime de Angulo & William Ralganal Benson, 'The Creation Myth of the Pomo Indians,' Anthropos 27 (1932). (ethnography); Samuel A. Barrett, 'Pomo Myths,' Bull. Public Museum of Milwaukee vol. 15 (1933). (ethnography)