Coyote

Salish · demigod · myth age (animal people / sptákwelh time) · demigod

Culture-hero/transformer trickster classed 'demigod' per schema. Okanagan orthography sn̓k̓lip; Secwépemc/Nlaka'pamux Snčĺé; popular 'sen'klip', pronounced SIN-kleep. No standardized attested gear, hence materialCulture [].

Domains

trickery
transformation

Powers

transform the land and its monsters
release the salmon up the rivers
lose his children to the sky as the Pleiades

Epithets

sn̓k̓lip

Relations

student: Old-One

Sources

James Teit, 'The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus,' ed. Franz Boas (BAE 45th Annual Report, 1930).
Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket), 'Coyote Stories' (Caxton, 1933).
James Teit, in Boas (ed.), 'Folk-Tales of Salishan and Sahaptin Tribes' (1917).

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