the hunter (Myth 52)

Role: hunter · First appears: Myth 52 · The Red Man and the Uktena

In Myth 52, the hunter and his brother go hunting together in the mountains. When a uktena chokes a man, the hunter kills it to free him. After dark, Asga'ya Gi'gagei rewards the hunter with medicine made from the uktena’s scale, promising, “As long as you keep this you can always kill game.”

The hunter returns to camp alone and finds his brother very sick; he cures him with medicine from cane. Afterward, he finds game whenever he goes looking for it.

Relationship record

Life events

• The hunter killed the uktena to free the man it was choking.(Myth 52 · The Red Man and the Uktena · 📍 the mountains)
  • With: the uktena (Myth 52)
  • “The hunter took good aim, and, drawing the arrow to the head, sent it through the body of the uktena, so that the blood spouted from the hole.”
• Asga'ya Gi'gagei gave the hunter a medicine made from the uktena's scale, promising it would help him find game.(Myth 52 · The Red Man and the Uktena)
  • With: Asga'ya Gi'gagei
  • “He wrapped this in a piece of deerskin and gave it to the hunter, saying: ‘As long as you keep this you can always kill game.’”
• The hunter cured his sick brother with medicine made from cane.(Myth 52 · The Red Man and the Uktena)
  • With: his brother (Myth 52)
  • “He returned to camp alone, and found his brother very sick, but soon cured him with the medicine from the cane”

Myth 52 · The Red Man and the Uktena

• siblings with his brother (Myth 52) “Two brothers went hunting together, and when they came to a good camping place in the mountains they made a fire, and while one gathered bark to put up a shelter the other started up the creek to look for a deer.”
• benefactor: Asga'ya Gi'gagei “He said to the hunter: ‘You have helped me, and now I will reward you, and give you a medicine so that you can always find game.’”
• recipient: his brother (Myth 52) (The hunter heals his brother.) “He returned to camp alone, and found his brother very sick, but soon cured him with the medicine from the cane, and that day and the next, and every day after, he found game whenever he went for it.”
• enemies with the uktena (Myth 52) “The man was fighting for his life, and called out to the hunter: ‘Help me, nephew; he is your enemy as well as mine.’”

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Extracted from the original text of Myths of the Cherokee. Made with Rho MD.