Hain Spirit Shoort
Selk'nam · deity · mythic perennial · deity
Domains
- underworld and initiation
Powers
- erupts from the ground to terrorise the women and test initiates
Relations
Sources
- Chapman, Anne. Drama and Power in a Hunting Society: The Selk'nam of Tierra del Fuego (1982): Shoort, the chief Hain spirit, husband of Xalpen
- Gusinde, Martin. Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band I: Die Selk'nam (1931): the masked Hain spirits Soorte and Xalpen
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