the girl who married a Star (Tale 14)
Family: Arikara · Role: wife and mother · First appears: Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1
When the girl climbed the cottonwood tree into another world, the Star revealed that he had lured her there as a porcupine; she married him. Many years afterward, she gave birth to their son, the boy, who had a picture of a star on his forehead.
She escaped toward earth with her boy, but the Star killed her with a falling stone. The boy slipped from her robe and survived the fall. At last he left his mother’s body and went west; later, people recognized him as the son of the girl who had climbed the cottonwood tree.
Relationship record
Life events
- The girl climbed into another world and the Star revealed himself as the porcupine who had lured her there.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1)
- With: the Star (Tale 14)
- “The porcupine had turned into a man. The man spoke to the girl, and said: ‘Why do you cry? I am the Star that you saw and that you said you liked. I went down after you. I turned myself into a porcupine and you came after me, and now you are here in my home.’”
- The girl gave birth to a son fathered by the Star.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1)
- With: the Star (Tale 14)
- “Many years afterward she gave birth to a male child.”
- The girl gave birth to a boy with a star-shaped picture on his forehead.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1)
- With: the boy (Tale 14)
- “When the child was born his mother found the picture of a star upon his forehead.”
- The girl escaped toward the earth with her boy, but the Star killed her and the boy survived the fall.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1)
- With: the boy (Tale 14)
- “The stone slipped down upon the string and struck the woman on the top of the head and killed her. As the woman fell down towards the earth the boy slipped out from the robe upon the back of the woman and fell on the ground, but was not hurt.”
- The boy left his mother and went west.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 2)
- With: the boy (Tale 14)
- “At last the boy had to leave her, so he went on west from where his mother lay.”
- The people recognized the boy as the son of the girl who climbed the cottonwood tree.(Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 5 · 📍 the village of the people)
- With: the boy (Tale 14)
- “There the boy told his story, and the people knew that he was the son of the girl who had climbed up the cottonwood tree.”
Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 1
- married with the Star (Tale 14) “I was brought up by my husband, who is a Star.”
- child: the boy (Tale 14) “Many years afterward she gave birth to a male child. When the child was born his mother found the picture of a star upon his forehead.”
Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 2
- child: the boy (Tale 14) “He would go off from his mother during the day and in the evening he would come back, crawl under the robe, and nurse at his mother’s breast.”
Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 4
- married with the Star (Tale 14) “that the Star had married this girl”
- child: the boy (Tale 14) “that the child had stayed around its mother until she had decayed”
Tale 14 · The Girl Who Married a Star · Part 5
- child: the boy (Tale 14) “There the boy told his story, and the people knew that he was the son of the girl who had climbed up the cottonwood tree.”
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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.