SOLITARY: Yetaita is recorded with no kin. He is opposed to the good supreme being Watauinéwa but is expressly not his rival or equal — Yámana thought holds that 'there cannot be rivalry between them,' and the sources stress that Yetaita 'does not have the same importance as the creator god.' He is therefore deliberately NOT wired as an enemy of Watauinéwa. Classed as a deity (a spirit-being) with no attested divine parent.
Domains
male initiation kina
evil and the underground
Powers
terrifies the male novices (ushwáala) in the kína lodge
emerges from beneath the earth, up through the fire
personifies evil and the harmful side of life
Sources
Gusinde, Martin. Die Feuerland-Indianer, Band II: Die Yamana, 1937 (Eng. trans. The Yamana, HRAF 1961).
Chile Precolombino, 'Beliefs and funeral rites — Yámana' (chileprecolombino.cl).
Ser Indígena, 'Mundo Espiritual — Yagán' (serindigena.org).