Ná‘hläshi

Also known as: Aged Buck · Role: one of the Kâ´yemashi · First appears: Section 21 · The Birth of the Old-Ones or Ancients of the Kâ´kâ

In Section 21, Ná‘hläshi is one of the twelve children of Síweluhsiwa and Síwiluhsitsa, born to them “In time there were born to these twain, twelve children.” He is the younger brother of Pótsoki; when their unnamed younger brother was carried off by the Snail Kâ´kâ of the South, Ná‘hläshi grieved and nearly rubbed his eyes out.

The children became attendants and fosterers, sages and interpreters of the ancient dance-dramas or the Kâ´kâ. Ná‘hläshi is described as the biggest of them all, looking ancient but “as frisky as a fawn.”

Relationship record

Life events

• The children became attendants and fosterers, sages and interpreters of the ancient dance-dramas or the Kâ´kâ.(Section 21 · The Birth of the Old-Ones or Ancients of the Kâ´kâ)
  • With: the Kâ´yemäshi Pékwina Pí‘hlan Shíwani Éshotsi Muíyapona Pótsoki Ítseposa K‘yä´lutsi Tsa‘hläshi
  • “Silly were they, yet wise as the gods and high priests; for as simpletons and the crazed speak from the things seen of the instant, uttering belike wise words and prophecy, so spake they, and became the attendants and fosterers, yet the sages and interpreters, of the ancient of dance-dramas or the Kâ´kâ.”

Section 21 · The Birth of the Old-Ones or Ancients of the Kâ´kâ

• siblings with Pótsoki “There is Pótsoki (the Pouter), who does little but laugh and look bland, for grin he can not; and his younger brother, Ná‘hläshi (Aged Buck), who is the biggest of them all, and what with having grieved and nearly rubbed his eyes out (when his younger brother was captured and carried off by the K‘yámak‘ya-kwe or Snail Kâ´kâ of the South), looks as ancient as a horned toad; yet he is as frisky as a fawn, and giggles like a girl; yea, and bawls as lustily as a small boy playing games.”
• parent: Síweluhsiwa “In time there were born to these twain, twelve children.”
• parent: Síwiluhsitsa “In time there were born to these twain, twelve children.”

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Extracted from the original text of Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths. Made with Rho MD.