the other boy (Tale 21)

Family: Village · Role: one of the two boys · First appears: Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2

In Tale 21, the other boy was carried with the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) to an island after the first boy shot a strange object and a strong wind took them far from home. Near the great water, they met the old woman who hosted the boys (Tale 21), who called them “grandsons,” welcomed them into her lodge, and fed them; they stayed with her for one moon.

The old woman prepared cakes and instructed the boys how to cross the water on the fourth serpent (Tale 21). They rode on the serpent with their cakes of mush, then took a cake and told their “grandfather” to open his mouth.

Relationship record

Life events

• A wind carried the boys far from home to an island after one shot a strange object.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2 · 📍 an island)
  • With: the boy who shot the object (Tale 21)
  • “But the first boy shot at the object and as soon as the arrow hit the object a strong wind came up and took both boys up, carrying them far away, and they were left on an island out in the great waters near where the sun comes up.”
• The old woman welcomed and fed the boys, who stayed with her for one moon.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2 · 📍 her lodge)
  • With: the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) the old woman who hosted the boys (Tale 21)
  • “They went in and she fed them. They stayed with the old woman one moon.”
• The old woman prepared cakes and instructed the boys how to cross the water on the fourth serpent.(Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2)
  • With: the old woman who hosted the boys (Tale 21) the boy who shot the object (Tale 21) the fourth serpent (Tale 21)
  • “She made the cakes and gave them to the boys, and said: “Go to the bank, and both of you must say,”

Tale 21 · The Boy Who Befriended the Thunderbirds, and the Serpent · Part 2

• elder kin: the old woman who hosted the boys (Tale 21) “As they neared the big water they saw a patch of corn and squash. They went on and saw an earth-lodge. They stood outside, and after a while an old woman came out and called them ‘grandsons’ and asked them to enter her lodge.”
• elder kin: the fourth serpent (Tale 21) “The fourth serpent came, and the boys got upon it with their cakes of mush. The boys took one cake and told their grandfather to open his mouth.”

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.