the daughter of Aggodagauda

Role: Aggodagauda's only child · First appears: Aggodagauda and his Daughter

In Aggodagauda and his Daughter, Aggodagauda warns his only child, a beautiful daughter, to stay inside or on the roof and watch for the buffalo chief. One morning, while she sits combing her hair on the lodge roof, the buffalo king catches her hair with his horns and carries her to his village. She leaves broken twigs along the trail for her father to follow, and later pretends to fetch water for the buffalo king before escaping.

Aggodagauda sets out to recover her and, with help from his guardian spirit, meets her as she leaves the lodge. He carries her on his shoulders back across the stream and brings her home.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aggodagauda warns his daughter to stay inside or on the roof and watch for the buffalo chief.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: Aggodagauda
  • “The sun shines,” said he, “and the buffalo chief will be apt to move this way before the sun gets to the middle point, and you must be careful not to pass out of the house, for there is no knowing but he is always narrowly watching.”
• The buffalo king abducts Aggodagauda’s daughter from the roof and carries her to his village.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: the buffalo king (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend)
  • “She had gone out on the top of the house, and sat combing her long and beautiful hair, on the eaves of the lodge, when the buffalo king, coming suddenly by, caught her glossy hair, and winding it about his horns, tossed her on to his shoulders, swept off in an opposite direction to his village.”
• Aggodagauda sets out to recover his stolen daughter.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: Aggodagauda
  • “In the mean time, Aggodagauda came home, and finding his daughter had been stolen, determined to get her back. For this purpose he immediately set out.”
• Aggodagauda’s daughter leaves branches along the trail to guide her father to her.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • “And the manner in which she had accomplished it was this. Her hair was all untied when she was caught up, and being very long, it caught on the branches as they darted along, and it was these twigs that she broke off for signs to her father.”
• Aggodagauda’s daughter pretends to fetch the buffalo king water, then escapes.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: the buffalo king (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend)
  • “At last he went out with his followers, but nothing could be seen or heard of the captive daughter.”
• With help from his guardian spirit, Aggodagauda carries his daughter home in triumph.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: Aggodagauda his guardian spirit (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend)
  • “While all this was passing, Aggodagauda, who had met his daughter the moment she came out of the lodge, and being helped by his guardian spirit, took her on his shoulders and hopped off, a hundred steps in one, till he reached the stream, crossed it, and brought back his daughter in triumph to his lodge.”

Aggodagauda and his Daughter

• parent: Aggodagauda “It was a peculiarity of Aggodagauda, that he had an only child, a daughter, who was very beautiful, whom it was the aim of this enemy to carry off, and he had to exert his skill to guard her from the inroad of his great and wily opponent.”
• enemies with the buffalo king (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend) “She had gone out on the top of the house, and sat combing her long and beautiful hair, on the eaves of the lodge, when the buffalo king, coming suddenly by, caught her glossy hair, and winding it about his horns, tossed her on to his shoulders, swept off in an opposite direction to his village.”
• admirer: the buffalo king (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend) “My sweetheart--my bosom is true, You only--it is you that I love.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.