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.

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