Aqas-Xena-Xenas

Aqas-Xena-Xenas
   Hero of a Chinook story of an Indian boy who reached the upper regions by a chain secured to the end of an arrow; there he reached the abode of the Evening Star and found his family counting over the dead people in Evening Star’s game-bag. He marries the Moon, the daughter of Evening Star, and participates in a war with the Morning Star and its daughter the Sun. His children are Siamese twins and are eventually successfully divided by Blue-Jay. This appears to be a vague memory of some great cosmic happening of the remote past.

Who’s Who in non-classical mythology . . 2014.

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  • Chinook Indian Creation Legend —    The Chinook Indians, who were also known as the ‘Flat Heads’ because of their extensive practice of artificial cranial deformation, have a creation myth in which Italapas, or Coyote, drove the waters of the Deluge away from the prairies and… …   Who’s Who in non-classical mythology

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