Ksa (Earth-616)

Iktomi
Name	Ksa
Current Alias	Iktomi
Physical Characteristics
Gender	Male
Unusual Features	Tribal tattoos on face & torso
Origin and Living Status
Origin	Manidoog
Living Status	Deceased
Reality	Earth-616
Personal Information
Identity	Secret
Citizenship	Giizhigong
Occupation	Deity
Base of Operations	United States of America
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Simon Jowett, Charlie Adlard
First	Dances With Demons #1 (July, 1993)
First	Dances With Demons #1 (July, 1993)
Death	Dances With Demons #4 (October, 1993)
Death	Dances With Demons #4 (October, 1993)

History

Iktomi was the shape-changing god of trickery of the Manidoog, the Native American gods. 

In the early 20th century, Iktomi granted a Clown demon a portion of his shape-changing powers. This Clown demon used its newfound powers to escape to the Earth realm and create the human identity of Curtis M. Edwards, becoming a prominent photographer and ethnologist.  In this human identity, the Clown demon traveled to various reservations and took photographs that romanticized the slaughter of the indigenous population, to the detriment of indigenous culture.  The Ghost Dancer (Nathaniel Great Owl) followed the trail of the Clown demon to New York City, where he exorcized the Clown demon and returned it to the Secret Worlds for atonement.  Suspecting that Iktomi was responsible for the Clown demon’s transformative powers, Great Owl later removed Iktomi’s ability to change shape, trapping him in a single body.  

Iktomi

In recent times, Iktomi sought to regain his transformative abilities and enact vengeance upon the one responsible for taking them.  To that end, he tracked a skin-walker demon who had recently killed Nathaniel Great Owl and now sought to kill Great Owl’s grandson, James Owl, who had inherited the mantle of Ghost Dancer upon his grandfather’s death.  Tracking the skin-walker demon and its Clown demon subordinates across the Unites States, Iktomi sensed the dreams of James Owl’s friend Patti, who had a vision of the missing James.  Iktomi then confronted the skin-walker demon and offered assistance in locating James Owl in exchange for the restoration of his transformative abilities. Iktomi and his new allies concocted a plan in which they abducted Patti and inhabited her flesh, using her spiritual connection with James Owl to track his location.  But by the time Iktomi and the demons reached James Owl and his friends in the Grand Canyon in Arizona, James had fully accepted the mantle of Ghost Dancer.  In the ensuing battle, Iktomi was knocked off a cliff. 

Attributes

Powers

Iktomi possesses the conventional superhuman physical attributes of a Native American god. As the god of trickery, he had the ability to alter the appearance of his body and to bestow such shapeshifting abilities to other beings; however, those powers were later removed by Ghost Dancer (Nathaniel Great Owl) as punishment.

See Also

• 6 appearance(s) of Ksa (Earth-616)
• 1 appearance(s) in handbook(s) of Ksa (Earth-616)
• 1 mention(s) of Ksa (Earth-616)
• 2 mention(s) in handbook(s) of Ksa (Earth-616)
• 4 image(s) of Ksa (Earth-616)

Links and References

• Ksa on Wikipedia.org