Thunderbird

Male thunder-being, classed as deity. The prompt's 'Kah-lit' is, in Swanton's Wrangell texts, a lightning-creature/firedrake linked to the Thunder cycle; it is folded here into the Thunderbird's lightning faculty given its thin separate attestation rather than authored as its own figure.

Domains

• thunder and storm
• lightning

Powers

• make thunder by beating its wings
• flashes lightning from its eyes

Sources

• Swanton, John R. Tlingit Myths and Texts, BAE Bulletin 39, 1909.
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, acquisition note on the Thunderbird House (Xeitl Hít) screen, 2017.