Chief of Heaven's Daughter

Tsimshian · deity · pre flood · deity

The Chief of Heaven's Daughter is the mother of the Raven in the sky-origin telling of the Tsimshian transformer cycle. Going to fetch water, she drinks a cedar leaf into which Txä'msem has transformed himself, conceives, and bears him as a boy — the supernatural infant who cries 'Hama, hama!' for the box of daylight and so brings the light into the world. She is identified in the narratives by kinship rather than by a personal name.

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