ONATAH
Real Name:
Occupation:
Legal Status:
Identity: The general populace of Earth is unaware of Onatah’s existence except as a figure of Native American legend; she is well-known to the Native American population of America.
Other Aliases:
Place of Birth:
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives:
Group Affiliations: The Anasazi (Gods of North America)
Base of Operations:
First Appearance: (unnamed)
History:
Considered one of the most beautiful of the Native American Gods, Onatah had been kidnapped by Coyote, the Trickster-god, as she collected dew from earth. Coyote took her away to the Underworld in trying to get her to be his wife, but Tshohanoi, the Navaho sun god, worshipped as the god Manabozho by the Algonquin Indians, invaded the underworld using his powers to light it as bright as day. With his powers, he rescued her from Coyote and returned her to the heavens. The two of them eventually fell in love and they married. As Queen of the Anasazi, Onatah had several children including the gods Hino, Owayodota, Hotamintanio and Omamama. She also treated Manabozho's other children out of wedlock as her own sons and daughters. When the sun-god Tawa fell in love with the mortal, Ita, Onatah comforted his wife, the moon-goddess Pawa. Yolkai Estsan, once the wife of the water-god, Crow, known as Raven to the Tlingit tribes of the Northwest, later became the wife of the moon-god, Chibiabos, and later Queen of the Underworld by his side.
According to the myths of the Iroquois, Onatah is captured by Coyote every fall when her husband rests during which time winter falls on Earth. Their religion is similar to Persephone of the Greeks, Balder of the Norse and Dumuzi of the Sumerian Empire. As Tshohanoi, Manabozho continually must rescue her that spring may return and the season pass on Earth. It is unsure if these occurrences are actually connected to the cyclical proximities of the planet or if the seasons set these rituals into motion. Conceivably, the worshippers of these gods may have developed their legends independently of each other, but the actual connections Onatah and these gods have to the changing climate of the planet is unrevealed.
Onatah had been given by Tawa four mystical items to create a storm to destroy the Anaye, enemies of the gods who wished harm on mortal men and then sent her sons Owayodata and Hotamintanio to exterminate any survivors. She assigned Hino with the responsibility of creating rain further rainstorms and made Omamama responsible for stirring love in mortals that they would procreate.
Around 1000 AD, Manabozho and the respective god-kings of Earth learned of the coming of the Third Host of the Celestials, alien beings of inconceivable power who had influenced the evolution of the Earth's evolving human race and who intended to judge humanity's worthiness to survive when a Fourth Host came. The Celestials threatened to seal off the inter-dimensional portals with each of the godly realms with earth unless the gods made a vow to stop interfering with mortal affairs. Manabozho did so and issued an edict that the Anasazi would no longer seek active worshippers. Irregardless of this pact, the Native Americans continued worshipping their gods for years afterward with rituals and rites passed down over several thousand years.
Onatah and the other goddesses of earth
meanwhile took charge of finding human beings on Earth as close to genetic
potential as possible to present to the Celestials as examples of man's
worthiness to exist. Onatah discovered Catherine Moranis, a farm woman who lived
in Nineteenth Century Ottawa, and Yolkai Estsan located Kiana, a
sixteen-year-old Inuipiat woman in Eleventh Century Alaska. Together with the
other goddesses of earth, Onatah and her sister presented the mortal women
during the Fourth Host of the Celestials as prime examples of humanity.
Catherine and Kiana became Daydreamer and Moonstalker of the Young Gods.
Height: 5' 9"
Weight: 330 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: Brown
Strength Level: Onatah possesses superhuman strength enabling her to lift
(press) about 35 tons under optimal conditions.
Known Superhuman Powers: Onatah possesses the conventional physical attributes
of the Anasazi gods. Like all of the Anasazi, she is extremely long-lived, but not
immortal like the Olympian gods; she has not aged since reaching adulthood, she has a
mystical vitality and she cannot die by any conventional means. She is immune to all
Earthly diseases and is resistant to conventional injury. If she were somehow wounded,
her godly life force would enable her to recover with superhuman speed. It would take
an injury of such magnitude that it dispersed a major portion of her bodily molecules
to cause her a physical death. Even then, it might be possible for a god of equal power,
such as Manabozho or Raven or for a number of Native American gods working together to
revive her. Onatah also possesses superhuman strength and her Anasazi metabolism
provides her with far greater than human endurance in all physical activities. (Anasazi
flesh and bone is about three times as dense as similar human tissue, contributing to the
superhuman strength and weight of the Native American gods.)
Onatah also has several mystical powers
mostly connected to plants, rejuvenation and fertility. Considered the most
powerful goddess of the Anasazi, she can create rain and bring plants to life,
endow or control abundance and prosperity of the earth and to restore life to
even dead and dying plants. She also has great mystical skills to travel between
interdimensional worlds, manipulate earth and weather and to change her
appearance. She can take on an immaterial form or cast her likeness out of
clouds and fog. She can also mentally influence certain animals such as birds
and fish.
Abilities: Onatah is a very beneficent