the older brother (Myth 81)

Role: older brother · First appears: Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1

In Myth 81, the older brother lived with his own wife in another settlement. When he heard that the girl had married, he visited her at Kanuga, where the mother told him his sister had left with her child and husband. Sorry to see his mother lonely, he set out to find his sister.

At Tsunegûñ'yi, he found his sister dancing inside the mountain and spoke with her outside. After four years, she told her mother and brother they could see her husband if they came early the next morning, but they arrived after [[Tsulkalû']] and his family had gone; they found the promised deer meat. Later, his sister invited him inside the mountain, where he saw a great townhouse. He returned to Kanuga and told the people they must fast seven days to see Tsulkalû'. On the seventh day a stranger broke the fast and raised the war cry; afterward, when the brother asked to see Tsul`kalû', the voice answered, “Now you can never see me.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The older brother learned from his mother that his sister had gone away, and set out to find her.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Kanuga)
  • With: the mother (Myth 81)
  • “He was sorry to see his mother so lonely, so he said he would go after his sister and try to find her and bring her back.”
• The brother found his sister dancing inside the mountain and spoke with her outside.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2 · 📍 Tsunegûñ'yi)
  • With: the girl (Myth 81)
  • “He saw his sister dancing among them and called to her to come out. She turned when she heard his voice, and as soon as the drumming stopped for a while she came out to him, finding no trouble to climb down the rock, and leading her two little children by the hand.”
• The sister told her mother and brother they could see her husband if they came early the next morning.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2)
  • With: the girl (Myth 81) the mother (Myth 81)
  • “After four years had passed she came one day to her mother's house and said her husband had been hunting in the woods near by, and they were getting ready to start home to-morrow, and if her mother and brother would come early in the morning they could see her husband.”
• The mother and brother arrived too late to see the sister's husband, but found the promised deer meat.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2)
  • With: the mother (Myth 81)
  • “They came to the place early the next morning, but Tsul`kalû' and his family were already gone. On the drying poles they found the bodies of freshly killed deer hanging, as the girl had promised”
• The sister brought the brother inside the mountain to see her husband.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2 · 📍 Tsunegûñ'yi)
  • With: the girl (Myth 81)
  • “He asked to see her husband, and this time she told him to come inside with her. They went in as through a doorway, and inside he found it like a great townhouse.”
• The brother told the people that they must fast seven days in the townhouse to see Tsulkalû'.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2 · 📍 Kanuga)
  • “The young man went back to Kanuga and told the people.”
• The brother and the people failed to see Tsulkalû' after a stranger broke the fast and raised the war cry.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2 · 📍 the townhouse)
  • “At once the roar stopped and for some time there was silence. Then they heard it again, but as if it were going farther away, and then farther and farther, until at last it died away in the direction of Tsunegûñ'yi, and then all was still again. The people came out from the townhouse, but there was silence, and they could see nothing but what had been seven days before.”
• The brother was told he could never see Tsulkalû' after the fast was broken.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2 · 📍 Kanuga)
  • “But the voice answered, ‘Now you can never see me.’ Then the young man could not say any more, and he went back to Kanuga.”

Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1

• siblings with the girl (Myth 81) “Now, the girl had an older brother, who lived with his own wife in another settlement, and when he heard that his sister was married he came to pay a visit to her and her new husband,”
• parent: the mother (Myth 81) “Now, the girl had an older brother, who lived with his own wife in another settlement, and when he heard that his sister was married he came to pay a visit to her and her new husband, but when he arrived at Kanuga his mother told him his sister had taken her child and gone away with her husband, nobody knew where.”
• married with his own wife (Myth 81) “Now, the girl had an older brother, who lived with his own wife in another settlement, and when he heard that his sister was married he came to pay a visit to her and her new husband, but when he arrived at Kanuga his mother told him his sister had taken her child and gone away with her husband, nobody knew where.”

Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2

• siblings with the girl (Myth 81) “She was very glad to meet her brother and talked with him a long time”
• parent: the mother (Myth 81) “the mother ran to tell her son.”

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