Coyote

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).