The Swallowers

6 creatures confidence: medium community #8

Some jaws are aimed at livestock and some at the sun. The kholomodumo swallowed a village, the whowie emptied camps along the Murray, and Fenrir waits on the largest meal of all. The verb never varies.

wide-jaw devourers of suns, gods and villages (fenrir, sköll, kholomodumo, whowie) [carried from v8, overlap 1.00] [carried from v9, overlap 1.00] [carried from v10, overlap 1.00] [carried from v11, overlap 1.00] [carried from v12, overlap 1.00] [carried from v13, overlap 0.57] [carried from v14, overlap 0.67] [carried from v15, overlap 0.67]

What binds them

The shared documented vocabulary this family coheres around — each link lists every carrier of that motif or power.

• monstrous growth (power, shared ×2)
• appears and vanishes at will (motif, shared ×1)
• treasure guardian (motif, shared ×1)
• devouring (power, shared ×1)
• fear inducing roar (power, shared ×1)
• spacetime manipulation (power, shared ×1)
• superhuman strength (power, shared ×1)

Spans 4 tradition families: norse-germanic ×3 · middle-eastern ×1 · east-asian ×1 · none ×1

Members

• Draugr
• Fenrir
• Keukegen ≈
• Kholomodumo
• Roc
• Sköll

Affinity families assert documented resemblance — shared motifs and powers that beat a null model — never genealogy. Descent is a different claim, made only by the gold curated-kinship edges on the constellation. Discovered by deterministic community detection; see all affinity families.