Moon
Selk'nam · demigod · mythic primordial · Recorded classification
Female lunar being; classed as demigod (a howenh transformed into the moon). Wife of the Sun (Kren). Spelled Kre/Kra by Gusinde, Kreeh in the brief; both recorded. She is the mythic origin and patroness of the women in the Hain narrative.
Domains
- moon
- womens power
Powers
- lead the women's secret lodge that ruled the world
Epithets
- Kra the Moon (Gusinde's orthography)Martin Gusinde, Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band I: Die Selk'nam (1931) (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: SunReciprocal of selknam_kran.spouse — Sun 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
- Kreeh, the Moon, is a former Selk'nam howenh and the powerful sorceress-woman who led the women's rule before the men overthrew it; the dark marks on the moon are the scars of that rebellion.: Gusinde, Martin. Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band I: Die Selk'nam, 1931. (secondary); Chapman, Anne. Drama and Power in a Hunting Society, 1982. (secondary)