HAHGWEHDIYU The good creator god of the Iroquois, he shaped the earth with his hand, placed his dead mother's face in the heavens as the sky, while from her breasts he made the moon and stars. To the earth he gave her body as the source of fertility. He fought against his twin brother, the evil creator Hahgwehdaetgah, who had challenged the goodness of Hahgwehdiyu's creation. The two gods fought a duel with the huge thorns of the great crab-apple tree, which luckily for mankind Haghwehdiyu won.