Toba/Qom (Gran Chaco). English 'Lightning-Maker' leads; Toba Qasoǵonaǵa (also written Kasogonagá, Casogonagá). The 'ǵ' represents the Toba/Qom velar/uvular fricative. A weather deity; usually feminine in the literature, though gender is variably reported. Distinct from the rainbow / Water-Python serpent associated with the great floods of Chaco cosmogony.
Domains
thunder and lightning
rain
rainbow
Powers
shoot lightning and send rain
falls from the sky and must be helped by humans to return aloft
Epithets
Kasogonaga
Sources
Métraux, Alfred (1946). Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society 40.