Turquoise Man

Turquoise Man, the Zuni turquoise deity who married the Salt Mother (Ma'l Oyattsik'i) and withdrew with her to the sacred Zuni Salt Lake. Named in the prose of zuni_malokyattsiki (married the Turquoise Man).

Domains

• salt

Relations

• spouse: Salt WomanHusband of the Salt Mother (Ma'l Oyattsik'i); reciprocal spouse edge should be added to the existing zuni_malokyattsiki.F. H. Cushing, Zuni Folk Tales (1901) (primary)

Sources

• existence: F. H. Cushing, Zuni Folk Tales (1901), the Salt Mother and the Turquoise Man (primary); Charles M. Skinner, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (1896), the Zuni Salt Lake legend (secondary)