Sun Father
Zuni · deity · cosmogonic · Recorded classification
Zuni Sun Father (Yätokka Tä'chu), the form taken by Awonawilona; he raises Earth Mother and Sky Father from the waters and fathers the Ahayuta war twins. One of the three principal Zuni deities.
Children
Domains
- sun
- creation of life
Powers
- Impregnate the great waters with seed-stuff of worlds
- Beget the Ahayuta twin war gods
- Give light, warmth, and life to all beings
Relations
- spouse: Moonlight-Giving MotherReciprocal of zuni_moonlightmother.spouse — The Moonlight-Giving Mother is the consort-counterpart of the Sun Father among the great Zuni powers.Matilda Coxe Stevenson, The Zuni Indians, 23rd Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1904) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Cushing, Outlines of Zuni Creation Myths (1896) (primary); Stevenson, The Zuni Indians (1904) (primary)