the injured warrior (Chapter 004)

Role: son · First appears: The Thunderers

During an expedition, the injured warrior broke his leg, and his two treacherous comrades carried him to a pit and hurled him in. The old man saved him, treated his wound and cared for him until he recovered. The warrior promised to hunt for him and did so throughout the winter.

The Thunderers later told the warrior that they meant to destroy the old man to whom he had bound himself. They carried him through the air to his mother’s cornfield, and he returned to her cabin, where he stayed for the rest of the year, “fulfilling his duties as a son.” When the Thunderers left, they gave him a cloud-dress and invited him to fly with them each spring. He later told his people that Thunder was their divine protector and recounted what he had witnessed.

Relationship record

Life events

• The warrior broke his leg during an expedition.(The Thunderers)
  • “one of them had the misfortune to break his leg.”
• The comrades threw the injured warrior into a pit and abandoned him.(The Thunderers · 📍 the pit)
  • With: the two treacherous comrades (Chapter 004)
  • “Returning to the litter, they took up their helpless load, carried him near the brink of the pit, and suddenly hurled him in.”
• The old man saved the injured warrior, treated his wound, and cared for him until he recovered.(The Thunderers · 📍 the pit)
  • With: the old man (Chapter 004)
  • “The young warrior readily promised, and the old man applied herbs to his wound and attended him skillfully until he recovered.”
• The recovered warrior hunted for the old man as promised.(The Thunderers · 📍 the pit)
  • With: the old man (Chapter 004)
  • “All through the winter the youth hunted in the service of the old man”
• The Thunderers revealed their mission and recruited the warrior to help destroy the old man.(The Thunderers)
  • With: the Thunderers (Chapter 004)
  • “They told him that their present object was to destroy the old man to whom he had bound himself”
• The Thunderers carried the warrior home to his mother.(The Thunderers · 📍 his mother's cornfield)
  • With: the Thunderers (Chapter 004)
  • “Then he rose with them in the air, and soon found himself in his mother's cornfield.”
• The warrior reunited with his mother and returned to care for her.(The Thunderers · 📍 her cabin)
  • With: the warrior's mother (Chapter 004)
  • “He remained with her, fulfilling his duties as a son, for the rest of the year.”
• The Thunderers left the cloud-dress with the warrior and invited him to fly with them each spring.(The Thunderers)
  • With: the Thunderers (Chapter 004)
  • “We will leave the cloud-dress with you. Every spring, when we return, you can put it on and fly with us to be witness to what we do for the good of man.”
• The warrior told his people that the Thunder was their divine protector and recounted what he had witnessed.(The Thunderers)
  • “the youth returned home and told his friends that the Thunder was their divine protector, and narrated the proofs which he had witnessed of this benignant character.”

The Thunderers

• parent: the warrior's mother (Chapter 004) “Great was the grief of his mother, a widow, whose only support he had been.”
• employer: the old man (Chapter 004) “All through the winter the youth hunted in the service of the old man, who told him that whenever he killed any game too large for one man to carry, he would come himself and help to convey it to the pit, in which they continued to reside.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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