Old-One

Spirit-class creator/sky-deity; classed 'deity' per schema (no separate creator tier). Native theonym not consistently recorded in the early ethnographies — Teit translates it as 'Old-One' or 'the Chief'; term left empty rather than supplying a reconstruction.

Domains

• creation
• world ordering

Powers

• create the earth and the first beings
• send transformers to prepare the world
• Names and assigns to each being its nature and place in the world

Epithets

• the Old One

Relations

• mentor: Coyote

Sources

• James Teit, 'The Thompson Indians of British Columbia,' Jesup North Pacific Expedition (1900).
• James Teit, 'The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus,' ed. Franz Boas, 45th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1930).