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North American Indian Gods
Anguta Anguta (Inuit/Eskimo)
Gatherer of the dead. Anguta carries the dead down to the underworld, where they
must sleep with him for a year.
Aningan Aningan (Inuit/Eskimo)
The moon, brother to the sun whom Moon chases across the sky. Aningan has a great
igloo in the sky where he rests. Irdlirvirissong, his demon cousin, lives there as well.
The moon is a great hunter, and his sledge is always piled high with seal skins and
meat.
Asgaya Asgaya Gigagei Gigagei (Cherokee)
The Red Man or Woman evoked in spells to cure the ill. Asgaya Gigagei is either male
or female, depending on the sex of the patient.
Atira Atira (Pawnee)
The Earth, Sacred Mother of every living creature. The Pawnee were hunters. When
told to abandon hunting and settle down to farming, their priest replied: "You ask me
to plow the ground! Shall I take a knife and tear my mother's bosom? Then when I
die she will not take me to her bosom to rest. You ask me to dig for stone! Shall I dig
under her skin for her bones? Then when I die I cannot enter her body to be born
again. You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it, and be rich like white men!
But how dare I cut off my mother's hair? It is a bad law and my people cannot obey
it."
Awonawilona
Awonawilona Awonawilona (Pueblo Indians)
"The One Who Contains Everything." The Supreme God, the Creator of All. Before
the creation there was only Awonawilona; all else was darkness and emptiness. Both
male and female, Awonawilona created everything from himself and taking form
became the maker of light, the Sun.
Big Big Heads Heads (Iroquois)
Demon gods. Giand heads without bodies which fly about in storms. They find men
very tasty.
Breathmaker Breathmaker (Seminole)
Breathmaker taught men to fish and dig wells, and made the Milky Way. When the
virtuous die, they follow the Milky Way to a glorious city in the western sky.