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Gohone

Gohone is a Haudenosaunee deity associated with winter.

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Gohone is a Haudenosaunee deity associated with winter.

Gohone is a god of winter, who takes the form of an old man with a stick. During winter, he would walk the forests, breaking trees apart with his stick and his powers of frost.1 Adekagagwaa, the sun god associated with summer, will return at the end of winter and banish Gohone, thus bringing warmth back to the land.23

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  1. Richard Ely; Frédérique Devos (16 October 2018). Le grand livre des esprits de noël. Véga. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-2-85829-947-8.
  2. Charles Russell Coulter; Patricia Turner (4 July 2013). Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities. Routledge. p. 15. ISBN 978-1-135-96390-3.
  3. Hartley Burr Alexander (7 March 2012). Native American Mythology. Courier Corporation. pp. 25–26. ISBN 978-0-486-12279-3.