Dictionary entry
Kenek Puel • pn • a village downriver from Kenek
Lexicon record # 806 | Source reference(s):
YG:E116
Semantic
domain: place names
Derivation: literally, "downriver from Kenek" (Kenek "a village on the Klamath", puel "below (lower down the river)")
Geographical story
- YG251 • Here "an invisible ladder used to lead up to the sky-country (wonoye'ik). Numerous very powerful supernatural beings used to live at Kenek, three-quarters of a mile above. These beings afterward moved to Patrick's Point and became the porpoises. In the old mythological days, these immortals used to come down to Kenek Pul and mount the sky-ladder to wonoye'ik, to watch the shinny games up there. In these myth times there was one flat 'prairie', or meadow, all the way to Kenek and above; but when these 'woogey people went away they 'threw it all around', leaving it very much broken up with ravines and hills, as it is now."