Old Man Coyote
Old Man Coyote (Isáahkawuattee, Akbaatatdia) is the central creator and trickster figure of Crow mythology. He was alone upon a great ocean when he saw two male ducks and asked them to dive for mud, which he used to build an island that grew into all the lands of Earth. He shaped mountains, rivers, and valleys, then molded humans from clay and created women so they would be happy. Old Man Coyote is simultaneously the world's creator and its most unreliable inhabitant—enormously clever yet occasionally foolish, both source of everything and an ongoing embarrassment. He is still in the world, st