Gaoh
Also known as: Gǎoh
Basic account
Master of the winds: a giant spirit who pens the gales.
Account
Gaoh is the master of the winds in Haudenosaunee tradition, keeping the four directional winds in his charge. Each wind has its animal, and what the weather does depends on which one he releases.
Motifs
- Holding up the sky
- The giant as guardian
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What is disputed
Converse's collection was assembled by a writer who was not born into the nations she recorded, yet was not a distant tourist either: she was adopted into the Seneca Snipe Clan in 1885, named Ya-ie-wa-noh by the Seneca National Council in 1891, and raised as a sachem by the Onondaga in 1892.
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Sources
- Haudenosaunee oral tradition, Six Nations (variation between nations)
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