Spirit Kokumthena Traditional Cache
Mn-treker: This one is disappeared a few times it was a hanger. I had used rope and I had used a wire both times it comes off. The last time I found it 50 yd downstream.I got lucky it didn't head for the gulf of Mexico. This time it's probably gone. Such are hides along a river that floods 10 to 15 ft above its current level.
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Spirit Kokumthena (Our Grandmother)Cloud spirit This is one of 14 spirit hides to find. All will be along the river someplace. Remember to get the number from each container. Then you will complete your journey to the 15th hide. The final.
Name: Kokumthena Tribal affiliation: Shawnee Alternate spellings: Kohkumthena, Kokomthena Paboth'kwe, Kokomthena, Kohkomthena, Kuhkoomtheyna, Kohkomhthena, Kohkumthena Pronunciation: koh-kumm-theh-nah Also known as: Our Grandmother, Grandmother Spirit, Cloud Woman, Paboth'kwe, Papoothkwe, Papoothkwee, Pabothkew, Inumsi Ilafewanu, Shikalapikshi, Lithikapo'shi Type: Transformer, goddess, heroine, culture hero, grandmother Related figures in other tribes: Nokomis (Anishinabe), Old Lady (Blackfoot), Grandmother Woodchuck (Abenaki), Nukumi (Mi'kmaq) Most Algonquian cultures have a Transformer hero in their mythology-- a revered human-like supernatural being who created people, shaped the world into a better place for them, and taught them the arts of civilization. Kokumthena is somewhat unique in that she is female (the Blackfoot tribe have a married couple, Old-Man and Old-Lady, in this role; all the other Algonquian tribes we know of have male Transformer figures.) In Shawnee legends, Kokumthena is depicted as an old woman (her name means "our grandmother") and does not take part in any of the monster-slaying or humorous exploits other Algonquian Transformer heroes engage in. Kokumthena may originally have been important primarily as a grandmother goddess, similar to the wise grandmothers of other Algonquian heroes like the Anishinabe Manabozho or the Wabanaki Glooskap. Her role as Transformer is not mentioned in earlier collections of Shawnee legends and oral history, though that could have been an omission by the non-Shawnees doing the recordings. Paboth'kwe (or Papoothkwe) is another Shawnee name for this matriarchal figure, meaning "cloud woman." Perhaps this may be an indication that she is related to Sky Woman of the Iroquois tribes. In some books Kokomthena's name is given as "Inumsi Ilafewanu," "Shikalapikshi," or "Lithikapo'shi," but our Shawnee volunteers do not recognize any of these names and we're not sure where they could have come from (the first one, in particular, is definitely not from the Shawnee language and looks like it might be African.)
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