High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Waka-ush Kamui is the Ainu kamui (goddess) of fresh water. She is also known as Petorush Mat (Watering-place Woman).Waka-ush Kamui is portrayed as a long-haired woman who is a skilled dancer and singer.In Ainu mythology, Waka-ush Kamui is a benevolent goddess who oversees the river valleys around which Ainu communities centered and is responsible for all fresh water. She is sympathetic to humanity, and is sometimes petitioned to intercede with other kamui on their behalf.One such myth tells how Waka-ush Kamui ended a famine that had broken out. Petitioned by Okikurme, the culture hero and sorcerer, she invites the kamui of the rapids, the kamui of fish, the kamui of game, the goddess of the hunt Hash-Inau-uk Kamui, and the overseer of the land Kotankor Kamui to a feast. She dances and sings, entertaining them, and in the course of the evening brings up the humans' plight.

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