Kamuy-huci

In Ainu accounts Kamuy-huci descends to the human world after creation to provide humans with fire when the world lacked vegetation; in some versions she is born from the implement that produces fire or is related as sister or daughter to other origin kamuy. She is described as one of the most important kamuy and as the resident spirit of the hearth, the domestic locus where humans and kamuy communicate and where ancestors dwell.

Depicted as a woman who lives in the hearth and never leaves her home. She is described as wearing six layers of kimono tied with a sash, with another six layers of kimono on top left to flutter freely.

Provides and sustains fire for human use; descended to bring fire after creation. Acts as guardian and judge of the household, punishing those who pollute the hearth or fail to maintain proper domestic relationships. Serves as keeper of the gateway between humans and other kamuy and presides over the hearth as the abode of the dead. Instructed Ainu women in making kut (sacred girdles), earning the name Iresu Kamuy (People's Teacher). Because she does not leave the hearth she employs other household kamuy (e.g., Mintakoro-kamuy, Rukoro-kamuy) to carry out duties beyond the hearth. In mythic narrative she is competent in supernatural contest, defeating Wakka-us-kamuy in a duel of sorcery.