hahtla

Updated: May 20, 2025

"Old Kala-kash tells this story, and he says that one of these people, when very old, went down through the crater of the mountain, and, given long life by Yehl, stays there always to hold up the earth out of the water. But the other lives in the crater as the Thunder Bird, Hahtla, whose wing-flap is the thunder and whose glance is the lightning.

Mary F. Nixon-Roulet - Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin