Yig
Yig, also known as Father of Serpents, is one of the Ogdru Hem, whose domain was mostly in Central America and the southern states of the USA.
Description[]
While he had an arbitrary and capricious nature he was also fiercely protective of his serpentine offspring and would punish anyone who dared harm them. He is the father of Ayi'ig and the mate of the outer god Yidhra. Even though Yig is quick to anger he is also easy to please as long as no harm comes to his children, the snakes. In addition to this, the Wichita tribe would make offerings of corn to appease him.
History[]
Background[]
Yig was one of the many Old Ones that visited the Earth during its primeval epochs. Yig is perhaps more well-known for having created the Saurian race who revered Yig as the Great Serpent. Under the guidance of Yig, reptilians came to build vast empires long before the arrival of other intelligent races, and were even said to have greatly aided Yig in defending his mounds against the Elohim.
But this was to no avail as Yig's citadel was utterly destroyed by Quetzalcoatl while Tezcatlipoca unleashed turbulent waves of blood that drowned the Reptilians to ensure their destruction. However, Yig survived the ordeal by burrowing deep within the earth and going into dormancy to conceal himself from the eyes of Heaven and the gods.
Imprisoned in Devils Tower[]
Yig would not be known until his existence was discovered by the Native American tribes that settled into what is currently known as Oklahoma. Yig was feared by the natives of the Americas to where it is believed that he was the one who produced the image of the fabled Horned Serpent, a recurring figure within the mythologies of the many native tribes of North America, and is also said to have continuously clashed with Yáahl over food which produced violent storms, rain, lightning and thunder; courtesy of the Thunderbirds that were summoned to separate them.
While Yig was rarely malicious, he would enter a feeding frenzy in Autumn, leading the Pawnee, Wichita, and Caddo of Oklahoma to drum constantly from August through to October to drive him away and back into the chasms of the earth to keep him from devouring all the animals and humans. According to legend from Native American peoples, their ancestors worked with Yáahl to imprison Yig but needed to lure him out.
During the season of Yig's emergence where he would devour all in his path, he spotted a group of girls that went out to play and began to chase them. Yáahl, in the guise of a raven, led the girls atop a rock, who then fell to their knees, and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit told Yáahl to fly in rapid circles around the rocks, engulfing Yig inside a vortex of spiritual magic and the earth as the rocks rose from the ground towards the heavens until it took formation of a butte around Yig, promptly imprisoning the Great Serpent inside. This prison would be known as Devils Tower, the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906.
Legacy[]
In the early 1920s, an "American Indian ethnologist" conducted extensive research into snake lore from Guatemala to Oklahoma. He described Yig as the dark prototype for the more benevolent Quetzalcoatl. By the time of his investigation, the ethnologist found that the people of Oklahoma were often too afraid to discuss the legend, though this had not always been the case. Before the Land Rush of 1889, the plains tribes were more open than the Pueblo or desert nomads about their worship of Yig. Belief was more common in the west than it was in the transplanted south eastern tribes.