Hé-no
Hé-no is the thunder god who lives behind the falls. He saved Lelawala when she fell out of her canoe. He threw a lightning bolt at a huge snake with venom so powerful it could kill a whole village.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 1600 CE
- Attested period
- 1600 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Documented in Iroquois and Seneca mythology.
Relationships
- teacher of
- Gunnodoyak
- serves
- Adekagagwaa
- consort of
- Rainbow
- enemy of
- witches, evil persons, Great Water Snake, Stone Giants
- served by
- Gunnodoyak, Keneu, Oshadagea
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“The thunder god Hé-no then saved her, as Hé-no was the one who lived behind the falls. At the time, her canoe was broken so Hé-no offered to build a new one.”
#3152 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Adekagagwaa was said to have control over several weather gods, including Gǎ-oh, the wind god, Hé-no, the god of thunder and storm”
#3903 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Hé-no is a thunder spirit of the Iroquois and Seneca people. He is also known as Heno, Hino, Hinu or Hinun. Hé-no lives in the cloud of the far west, and has rainbow as his wife, and is accompanied by the eagles Keneu and Oshadagea”
#20441 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001