Segep
Yurok · numen · Yurok traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Segep, Coyote, is the animal-person trickster of Yurok oral literature. Greedy, lustful, and heedless, he blunders through a string of escapades in which his own schemes rebound upon him, and in some tales his actions inadvertently fix features of the world. He belongs to the same order of first-age beings as the woge, and his stories carry both comedy and cautionary force.
Domains
- trickery
Powers
- scheme and blunder
Sources
- Segep, Coyote, is the animal-person trickster of Yurok oral literature, whose greedy and heedless escapades rebound upon him and in some tales fix features of the world.: Kroeber, A. L. 1976. Yurok Myths. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. (secondary)