Among the Inca, it is the figure associated with the North.
Among Yahgan Indians of Tierra del Fuego, this creature was said to have slain the great stone giant who was invulnerable except on the soles of his feet, while in the eschatology of Northern California's Rumsen peoples, it steals light. In Hopi myth, two children make a paper replica of it that comes to life and returns with growing ears of corn. Among the Inca, it is the figure associated with the North. This creature is one of the forms taken by a certain god who rose fully-grown from his mother's womb to slay his sister and toss her head, which became the moon, into the sky. FTP, name this avian creature associated with the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli [Wee-tsee-loh-poch'-tlee].
Among Yahgan Indians of Tierra del Fuego, this creature was said to have slain the great stone giant who was invulnerable except on the soles of his feet, while in the eschatology of Northern California's Rumsen peoples, it steals light.
Hummingbird