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Thunderbird

Beings · Myth & story · Nature

An English cover-name for several North American Indigenous great-bird beings. Those birds are local; this name is not a pan-Indigenous thunder-god.

Northwest Coast tradition

  • Thunderbird appears in Northwest Coast tradition.

    Swanton’s Tlingit Myths and Texts records the great-bird of Tlingit story under the English cover-name thunderbird. A named Tlingit bird-being in that collection, not an eagle, not Zeus’s bird, and not a pan-Indigenous thunder-god.

    from John R. Swanton · Tlingit Myths and Texts, 1909

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