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Atabey (goddess) Mother goddess of fresh water and fertility. Female counterpart of the god Yúcahu: Yúcahu: The masculine spirit of fertility in Taíno mythology along with his mother Atabey who was his feminine counterpart Guabancex: The top Storm Goddess; the Lady of the Winds who also deals out earthquakes and other such disasters of ...
Pages in category "Goddesses of the indigenous peoples of North America" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
Native American Mythology. Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-12279-3. Bastian, Dawn Elaine; Judy K. Mitchell (2004). Handbook of Native American Mythology. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-1-85109-533-9. Erdoes, Richard and Ortiz, Alfonso: American Indian Myths and Legends (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984) Ferguson, Diana (2001). Native American myths ...
Beginning in the mid-1960s the Honolulu City Council required trans women to wear a badge identifying themselves as male. [16] In American artist George Biddle's Tahitian Journal (1920–1922) he writes about several māhū friends in Tahiti, of their role in native Tahitian society, and of the persecution of a māhū friend Naipu, who fled ...
The Ojibwe people (Chippewa) of southern Canada and northern US speak of Spider Woman, known as Asibikaashi, [13] as a helper of the people, and inspiring mothers (or other close female relatives) to weave protective spider web charms. [14] In Lakota tradition, the (male) trickster spirit Iktomi appears in the form of a spider. [15]
The gathering of wild plants is more often a women's occupation; however, these tasks often overlapped, with men and women working on the same project but with different duties. [38] Despite hunting itself being more commonly a male task, women also participate by building lodges, processing hides into apparel, and drying meat.
Deer Woman, sometimes known as the Deer Lady, is a spirit in Native American mythology whose associations and qualities vary, depending on situation and relationships. . Generally, however, to men who have harmed women and children, she is vengeful and murderous and known to lure these men to their d
Nāmaka - sea goddess and sister of Pele. Nanaue - demigod, son of Kamohoalii the shark god, and Kalei, a mortal women; Nuʻakea - goddess of milk; Nightmarchers; Nuʻu - Hawaiian Noah; Papa - Goddess of Nature; Paʻao; Pakaʻa - a god of the wind, gatekeeper of the underworld, wife of Kaiwa, Mother of Kaha’i; Paliuli; Papahānaumoku; Paupueo