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: Lëm

Sources

• Wilbert, Johannes (ed.). Folk Literature of the Yamana Indians (Gusinde's collection), 1977.
• Gusinde, Martin. Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band II: Die Yamana, 1937.
• Hakai Magazine, 'The Man Who Became the Rainbow' (hakaimagazine.com); Ser Indígena / El Rompehielos, 'Cultura yámana: Akainix' (elrompehielos.com.ar).