Sedit
deity earth Wintun mythology single tradition · 2
Sedit is the antagonist of Olelbis in Wintun mythology. Sedit persuaded one of the brothers that it would be better to engage in sexual intercourse and procreate the human species, causing them to defect from Olelbis and destroy the road they were building to heaven. He makes himself a mechanism of boughs and leaves (a plane), by means of which he hopes to fly to heaven, but he crashes and is killed.
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- enemy of
- Olelbis
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“The antagonist of Olelbis is Sedit. But Sedit appeared on the scene and persuaded one of the brothers that it would be better to engage in sexual intercourse and procreate the human species.”
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“Sedit: Indigenous American devil”
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