Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Amotken" | Salish | Creator god of the Salish, a kind, elderly man who lives alone in heaven. He created five women from five hairs from his head and asked them what they wanted to be. Each gave him a different answer: wickedness and cruelty, goodness, mother of the earth, fire, water. Amotken did as they asked and declared that wickedness would rule earth for a time, but goodness would win in the end. |
Goddess name "Tacoma" | Salish | earth and water goddess. Salish, Puyallup |