Who were Killer-of-Enemies and Child-of-the-Water in Apache stories?

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Mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas Haida argillite carving, c. 1890, depicting a folktale in which the Bear Mother endures a cesarean birth; in the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Haye Center, Smithsonian Institution, New York City.

In the mythology of the Apache and other southern Athabaskan-speaking peoples, Killer-of-Enemies and his younger brother, Child-of-the-Water, are prominent culture heroes.1

These figures are comparable to the Twin Gods found in the traditions of the Pueblo peoples. As culture heroes, they play a significant role in the oral traditions of these Indigenous groups, serving as central characters in narratives that define their cultural and mythological landscape.1