Petrel

Male deity-class being; a foil to Raven in the freshwater-origin myth. Sometimes treated as one of the senior beings of the first age. Recorded by Swanton at Sitka and Wrangell.

Domains

• fresh water

Powers

• guard the world's only everlasting spring

Relations

• rival: Raven

Sources

• Swanton, John R. Tlingit Myths and Texts, BAE Bulletin 39, 1909.