Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths

the man-woman of the Kâ´kâ

First appears: Section 21 · The Birth of the Old-Ones or Ancients of the Kâ´kâ

In Section 21, the man-woman of the Kâ´kâ is born to Síweluhsiwa and Síwiluhsitsa before their transformation. In Section 36, K‘yäk´lu addresses the Kâ´yemäshi as the man-woman’s younger siblings: “ye and thy sister elder, man-woman of the Kâ´kâ”.

Relationship record

Section 21 · The Birth of the Old-Ones or Ancients of the Kâ´kâ

  • parent: Síweluhsiwa “Yet not all ill was this first child, because she was born of love--what though crazed!--ere her parents were changed”
  • parent: Síwiluhsitsa “Yet not all ill was this first child, because she was born of love--what though crazed!--ere her parents were changed”

Section 36 · The Instruction of the Kâ´yemäshi by K‘yäk´lu

  • siblings with the Kâ´yemäshi (The speech addresses the Kâ´yemäshi as “ye” and calls her their elder sister.) “and thereunto were ye born, ye and thy sister elder, man-woman of the Kâ´kâ, as unto the councils thereof am I become slave yet master.”

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