the Rattlesnake

Role: transformed man · First appears: Myth 5 · The Daughter of the Sun

Life events

• The Little Men transformed two men into the Uktena and the Rattlesnake and sent them to kill the Sun.(Myth 5 · The Daughter of the Sun · 📍 the house)
  • With: the Little Men Uktena
  • “The Little Men made medicine again and changed one man into the great Uktena and another into the Rattlesnake and sent them to watch near the house and kill the old Sun when she came for dinner.”
• The Rattlesnake bit the daughter of the Sun, and she fell dead.(Myth 5 · The Daughter of the Sun · 📍 the house)
  • With: the daughter of the Sun
  • “he sprang up and bit her and she fell dead in the doorway.”
• The rattlesnake was transformed from a man to save the human race from extermination by the Sun.(Myth 49 · The Snake Tribe)
  • With: the Sun
  • “According to a myth given elsewhere, he was once a man, and was transformed to his present shape that he might save the human race from extermination by the Sun”
• The rattlesnake successfully saved the human race from the Sun.(Myth 49 · The Snake Tribe)
  • “a mission which he accomplished successfully after others had failed.”

Myth 5 · The Daughter of the Sun

• enemies with the daughter of the Sun “he sprang up and bit her and she fell dead in the doorway.”

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