Awonawilona
Zuni · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
Zuni supreme being, the Maker and Container of All ('All-Container'); existing before all else, conceived the cosmos and made himself into the Sun Father. Gender unspecified, referred to as he-she.
Domains
- creation
- life force
Powers
- Exist alone before all things in the void
- Think outward into space to evolve the mists of growth
- Make himself into the Sun Father
Epithets
- Awonawilona The all-container; the supreme life-giver from whose substance sun and world aroseFrank Hamilton Cushing, Zuñi Creation Myths (secondary)
- All-Container the Maker and Container of All; the one who holds all within himselfCushing, Outlines of Zuni Creation Myths (BAE 13th Annual Report, 1896) (ethnography)
Sources
- existence: Cushing, Outlines of Zuni Creation Myths (1896) (primary); Stevenson, The Zuni Indians (1904) (primary)