the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend)

Role: her brother · First appears: Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker

In Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker, the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend) objected when she brought O-na-wut-a-qut-o from below, but she refused to send him back. He later gave O-na-wut-a-qut-o a bow, arrows and a red-stone pipe, and this consent established O-na-wut-a-qut-o and his sister as husband and wife.

The brother struck the child (Onaiazo legend) with sickness, causing him to fall and be carried into a lodge. He demanded a white dog sacrifice, then removed his hand from the child, who recovered.

Relationship record

Life events

• The brother objected to the female guide taking O-na-wut-a-qut-o from below, but she refused to send him back.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: the female guide (Onaiazo legend) O-na-wut-a-qut-o
  • “Do you forget that the Greatest of the Spirits had commanded that you should not take away the child from below? Perhaps you suppose that you have concealed O-no-wut-a-qut-o, but do I not know of his coming? If you would not offend me, send him back immediately.” But this address did not alter her purpose. She would not send him back.”
• The brother's gift of consent established O-na-wut-a-qut-o and the female guide as husband and wife.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: O-na-wut-a-qut-o the female guide (Onaiazo legend)
  • “He then presented him a bow and arrows, and a pipe of red stone, richly ornamented. This was taken as the word of consent to his marriage; so the two were considered husband and wife from that time.”
• The brother struck the child with sickness, and the child fell and was carried into a lodge.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: the child (Onaiazo legend)
  • “‘Do you see,’ said the brother, ‘that group of children playing beside a lodge? Observe that beautiful and active boy,’ said he, at the same time darting something at him, from his hand. The child immediately fell, and was carried into the lodge.”
• The brother demanded a white dog sacrifice, then removed his hand from the sick child and the child recovered.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: the child (Onaiazo legend)
  • “To this request, the companion of O-no-wut-a-qut-o made answer: ‘Send me up the sacrifice of a white dog.’ Immediately a feast was ordered by the parents of the child, the white dog was killed, his carcass was roasted, and all the wise men and medicine men of the village assembled to witness the ceremony.”

Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker

• siblings with the female guide (Onaiazo legend) “Presently the brother came in, very richly dressed, and shining as if he had points of silver all over him.”
• enemies with the child (Onaiazo legend) “Observe that beautiful and active boy,” said he, at the same time darting something at him, from his hand. The child immediately fell, and was carried into the lodge.”
• recipient: the child (Onaiazo legend) “When I have struck one with sickness, they direct the people to look to me; and when they send me the offering I ask, I remove my hand from off them, and they are well.”

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