the boy (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)

Family: Skidi · Role: the father's son · First appears: The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1

In the Skidi village on the Loup, the boy was the son of a man who believed sacrificing him to Ti-ra´-wa would bring a blessing. One morning, his father stabbed him and threw his body into the river; at Pa-hük´, the Nahu´rac brought him back to life, taught him their secrets and ways, and made him one of them for a season.

After returning home in the night, he touched his sleeping mother and told her, “I've come back.” He knew he could not have learned these things unless his father had sacrificed him. Later, after a feast at the Nahu´rac lodge at Pa-hük´, he was made a doctor and taught again what the Nahu´rac knew.

Relationship record

Life events

The father stabbed the boy, killed him, and threw his body into the river.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1 · 📍 the Platte)
- With: the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
- “When they got to the river, as they were walking along, the man took his knife from its sheath, and caught the boy by the shoulder, and stabbed him quickly, and cut him open. When the boy was dead, he threw the body into the river, and then went back to the village.”
The Nahu´rac brought the boy back to life.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1 · 📍 [[Pa-hük´]])
- “Then all the Nahu´rac stood up, and went to where the boy lay, and stood around him and prayed, and at last the boy breathed once, and then after a little while he breathed again, and at last he came to life and sat up.”
The Nahu´rac taught the boy their secrets and ways and made him one of them.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1)
- “They taught the boy all their secrets, and all their ways. They taught him how to cut a man open and cure him again, and how to shoot an arrow through a man and then cure him, and how to cut a man's tongue out and then to put it back, and how to make well a broken leg, and many other things. After they had done all these things, they said to the boy, “Now we have brought you back to life, and have taught you all these things, so that you are one of us. Now you must stop with us one season.”
The boy returned home to his parents, who were surprised to see him.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2 · 📍 the village)
- With: the mother (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
- “He went up to her, and put out his hand and touched her, and pushed her a little. She awoke, and sat up and looked at him, and he said, ‘I've come back.’”
The father had sacrificed the boy.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2)
- With: the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed)
- “He knew that he could never have learned all these wonderful things unless his father had sacrificed him.”
The boy was made a doctor and taught what the Nahu´rac knew.(The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2 · 📍 [[the Nahu´rac lodge at Pa-hük´]])
- “After the feast they had a doctors' dance, and the boy was made a doctor, and again was taught all that the Nahu´rac knew.”

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 1

parent: the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) “Many years ago, in the Skidi village on the Loup, there lived a man, who believed that if he sacrificed his son to Ti-ra´-wa, it would be a blessing to him.”
parent: the mother (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) “Now the mother was mourning, and the father pretended to feel very badly.”

The Boy Who Was Sacrificed · Part 2

parent: the father (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) “The boy went home to the village. He got there in the night, and went to his father's lodge, and went in.”
parent: the mother (The Boy Who Was Sacrificed) “He went up to her, and put out his hand and touched her, and pushed her a little. She awoke, and sat up and looked at him, and he said, ‘I've come back.’ When she saw him, and heard him speak, she was very much surprised, and her heart was glad to see her boy again.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales. Made with Rho MD.