the hunter (Myth 65)

Role: hunter · First appears: Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa

In Myth 65, the Tla'nuwa carried the hunter from the woods to her cliff nest and told him to guard her young until they could leave. She fed him deer and stayed away while he spent many days in the cave with the growing birds.

The next morning, the hunter tied himself to one of the young birds, dazed it, and pushed them both from the cliff. When the bird tried to fly back toward the nest, he struck it again; at last, in a poplar tree, he untied it and pulled a feather from its wing. He returned to the settlement, but found a stone in his pack instead of the feather.

Relationship record

Life events

The Tla'nuwa carried the hunter away to her nest in the cliff.(Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa)
- With: the Tla'nuwa (Myth 65)
- “A hunter out in the woods one day saw a Tla'nuwa overhead and tried to hide from it, but the great bird had already seen him, and sweeping down struck its claws into his hunting pack and carried him far up into the air.”
The Tla'nuwa told the hunter to stay and guard her young ones until they could leave the nest.(Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa)
- With: the Tla'nuwa (Myth 65)
- “As it flew, the Tla'nuwa, which was a mother bird, spoke and told the hunter that he need not be afraid, as she would not hurt him, but only wanted him to stay for a while with her young ones to guard them until they were old enough to leave the nest.”
The hunter stayed in the cave with the young birds.(Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa)
- “The hunter stayed in the cave many days until the young birds were nearly grown”
The hunter tied himself to one young bird, dazed it, and pushed them both off the cliff.(Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa)
- With: one of the young birds (Myth 65)
- “The next morning, after the old bird had gone, he dragged one of the young birds to the mouth of the cave and tied himself to one of its legs with a strap from his hunting pack. Then with the flat side of his tomahawk he struck it several times in the head until it was dazed and helpless, and pushed the bird and himself together off the shelf of rock into the air.”
The hunter struck the young bird again as it tried to fly back toward the nest.(Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa)
- With: one of the young birds (Myth 65)
- “As the Tla'nuwa revived it tried to fly upward toward the nest, but the hunter struck it again with his hatchet until it was dazed and dropped again.”
The hunter untied the young bird, let it fly away, and pulled a feather from its wing.(Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa)
- With: one of the young birds (Myth 65)
- “At last they came down in the top of a poplar tree, when the hunter untied the strap from the leg of the young bird and let it fly away, first pulling out a feather from its wing.”
The hunter returned home and found a stone in his pack instead of the feather.(Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa · 📍 the settlement)
- “He climbed down from the tree and went to his home in the settlement, but when he looked in his pack for the feather he found a stone instead.”

Myth 65 · The Hunter and the Tla'nuwa

benefactor: the Tla'nuwa (Myth 65) “The old Tla'nuwa set the hunter down and then flew away, returning soon with a fresh-killed deer, which it tore in pieces, giving the first piece to the hunter and then feeding the two young hawks.”
enemies with one of the young birds (Myth 65) “Then with the flat side of his tomahawk he struck it several times in the head until it was dazed and helpless, and pushed the bird and himself together off the shelf of rock into the air.”

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