Gods and Goddesses
Native American
Navaho
Tonenili

ORIGIN: Native American - Navaho [USA]

TYPE: Rain god

INFORMATION: The so-called "lord of the celestial waters", he controls the rain from the skies as opposed to that of lakes, rivers and seas. He is said to scatter his waters to the four cardinal points and storm clouds begin to gather. He is also the water carrier for the other gods in the pantheon. He wears a blue mask with a fringe of hair and a spruce collar, but is otherwise naked save for a scarlet loincloth and a leather belt with silver ornamentation and a fox skin dangling at the back. His attributes, in mythology only, are two wicker water bottles, one blue and one black, whose strings are rainbows.