Akáinix

Male rainbow deity of the kína myth-cycle; brother of Lëm the Sun, and (in the Spanish Ser-Indígena / El Rompehielos tradition) husband of Hánuxa the Moon — a relation wired in this batch on Hánuxa's side to Lëm per the English passage, with the Akáinix-husband variant noted on Hánuxa. Impersonated by a mask in the kína alongside Lëm and Hánuxa. Classed as a deity with no attested divine parent.

Domains

• rainbow
• weather and fair skies
• sorcery and body painting

Powers

• flees into the sky and becomes the rainbow
• announces good weather when he appears in the sky
• works powerful sorcery (yékamush / shaman's power)
• paints himself better than anyone

Relations

• sibling: LëmReciprocal of yamana_lem.sibling. Akáinix the rainbow is the (elder) brother of Lëm the Sun — the stable, unambiguous kin relation among the kína-myth sky figures.Ser Indígena / El Rompehielos, 'Cultura yámana: Akainix' (elrompehielos.com.ar): Akáinix the rainbow, 'hermano de Lem el sol' (brother of Lëm the Sun), eldest of the brothers. (secondary)

Sources

• Akáinix is the Yámana rainbow: in the kína myth a beautiful man and powerful sorcerer, the best of body-painters and eldest brother of Lëm the Sun, who fled into the sky and became the rainbow, thereafter a benign sign announcing fair weather.: Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians (Gusinde's collection), 1977. (secondary); Gusinde, Martin. Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band II: Die Yamana, 1937. (secondary); Hakai Magazine, 'The Man Who Became the Rainbow' (hakaimagazine.com); Ser Indígena / El Rompehielos, 'Cultura yámana: Akainix' (elrompehielos.com.ar). (secondary)