Worship Kotan-kar-kamuy as our Patron God

Kotan-kar-kamuy, ‘village-making deity’, is the creator god of the Ainu. The missionary John Batchelor held that every kamuy answers to him and concluded that Ainu faith was originally monotheistic, a view Norbert Adami rejects, since he is rarely worshipped.

In one myth he tried to make fire for mankind. A poplar drill failed and became evil spirits; an elm succeeded, and its white shavings became the huntress goddess Hasinaw-uk-kamuy, its black shavings the bear Mountain God.