the boy (Myth 10)

Role: son · First appears: Myth 10 · Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine

Life events

• The boys danced and rose into the sky; six became the Pleiades.(Myth 10 · Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine · 📍 the townhouse)
  • “They saw the boys still dancing around the townhouse, and as they watched they noticed that their feet were off the earth, and that with every round they rose higher and higher in the air. They ran to get their children, but it was too late, for they were already above the roof of the townhouse--all but one, whose mother managed to pull him down with the gatayû'sti pole, but he struck the ground with such force that he sank into it and the earth closed over him. The other six circled higher and higher until they went up to the sky, where we see them now as the Pleiades, which the Cherokee still call Ani'tsutsa (The Boys).”

Myth 10 · Origin of the Pleiades and the Pine

• parent: the mother whose boy had gone into the ground (Myth 10) “The people grieved long after them, but the mother whose boy had gone into the ground came every morning and every evening to cry over the spot until the earth was damp with her tears.”

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