Hé-no

Hé-no, also called Hi’nö’, Heno, Hino, Hinu, or Hinun, is a peaceful and benevolent thunder spirit in Haudenosaunee and Seneca lore. He lives in a far western cloud, is married to the rainbow, and is joined by the eagles Keneu and Oshadagea. Armed with a bow, arrows, and a pouch of thunderbolts, he wears a magic feather for protection. He twice came to earth: once to kill the Great Water Snake of the Great Lakes, whose body broke into islands, and once to defeat the Stone Giants of the west, whose remains became pebbles. He also sends three Thunderers each year to destroy evil. He once lived in a cave under Niagara Falls, where he and his two nameless assistants saved a young girl from going over the falls.