Síwiluhsitsa

Family: the people (Áshiwe) · Role: daughter of Kâ´wimosa; mother of the Kâ´yemäshi · First appears: Section 19 · The Choosing of Seekers for Signs of the Middle

In Section 19, Kâ´wimosa sent Síwiluhsitsa and her youngest brother, Síweluhsiwa, eastward. In Section 20, after Síweluhsiwa became crazed with love for her, she fled from him, then made waters divide the mountain. The two later fled together into its caves and lived apart from the people.

In Section 21, Síwiluhsitsa and Síweluhsiwa had twelve children, the Kâ´yemäshi. Their parents abode together, changed to hideousness. In Section 30, K‘yäk´lu learned from the Kâ´yemäshi what had happened to his own brother and sister and of the evils their actions had brought upon his people. In Section 36, he said that Síwiluhsitsa would remain by the place she had made, maintaining it “as woman ever maintaineth the hearth she hath made”.