Supreme Being
Selk'nam · deity · mythic primordial · deity
Male supreme being, deity-class. His name was rarely spoken; he was addressed indirectly. Documented by the missionary-ethnographer Martin Gusinde and later by Anne Chapman, who recorded the last Selk'nam chants from Lola Kiepja.
Domains
- supreme creator being
- moral order
Powers
- uphold the moral order from beyond the sky
- sends the culture-hero Kenos to order the unfinished world
Epithets
- Temáukel
Relations
- ally: First Ancestor