Sun
Selk'nam · demigod · mythic primordial · Recorded classification
Male solar being; classed as demigod (a howenh transformed into the sun). Spelled Kren by Gusinde, Kran in the brief's orthography; both recorded here. Husband of the Moon-woman; the pair anchor the Hain origin myth.
Domains
- sun and daylight
Powers
- lead the men's overthrow of the women's rule
Epithets
- Kren the Sun (Gusinde's orthography)Martin Gusinde, Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band I: Die Selk'nam (1931) (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: MoonSun husband of Moon; after the overthrow of the women's Hain, Kren pursues and strikes Kre, her bruises the moon's spots.Martin Gusinde, Die Feuerland-Indianer I: Die Selk'nam (1931) (secondary)
Sources
- Kren, the Sun, is a former Selk'nam howenh who rose into the sky; he is the husband of the Moon (Kreeh) and the figure who exposed and overthrew the women's secret society in the founding myth of the Hain.: Gusinde, Martin. Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band I: Die Selk'nam, 1931. (secondary); Chapman, Anne. Drama and Power in a Hunting Society, 1982. (secondary)