Aggodagauda

Role: hunter and fisher · First appears: Aggodagauda and his Daughter

In “Aggodagauda and his Daughter,” Aggodagauda warns his only child, the daughter of Aggodagauda, to stay inside or on the roof and watch for the buffalo chief, his great enemy, who may come before midday. When the buffalo chief steals her, Aggodagauda sets out to recover her. With help from his guardian spirit (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend), he carries her across a stream and brings her home in triumph.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aggodagauda warns his daughter to stay inside or on the roof and watch for the buffalo chief.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: the daughter of Aggodagauda
  • “The sun shines,” said he, “and the buffalo chief will be apt to move this way before the sun gets to the middle point, and you must be careful not to pass out of the house, for there is no knowing but he is always narrowly watching.”
• Aggodagauda sets out to recover his stolen daughter.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: the daughter of Aggodagauda
  • “In the mean time, Aggodagauda came home, and finding his daughter had been stolen, determined to get her back. For this purpose he immediately set out.”
• With help from his guardian spirit, Aggodagauda carries his daughter home in triumph.(Aggodagauda and his Daughter)
  • With: the daughter of Aggodagauda his guardian spirit (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend)
  • “While all this was passing, Aggodagauda, who had met his daughter the moment she came out of the lodge, and being helped by his guardian spirit, took her on his shoulders and hopped off, a hundred steps in one, till he reached the stream, crossed it, and brought back his daughter in triumph to his lodge.”

Aggodagauda and his Daughter

• child: the daughter of Aggodagauda “It was a peculiarity of Aggodagauda, that he had an only child, a daughter, who was very beautiful, whom it was the aim of this enemy to carry off, and he had to exert his skill to guard her from the inroad of his great and wily opponent.”
• enemies with the buffalo king (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend) “But he had a great enemy in the chief or king of the buffaloes, who frequently passed over the plains with the force of a tempest.”
• elder kin: the father-in-law of Aggodagauda “They sallied out in the plains, but had not gone far, by the light of the moon, when a party of hunters, headed by the father-in-law of Aggodagauda, set up their yells in their rear, and a shower of arrows was poured in upon them.”
• benefactor: his guardian spirit (Aggodagauda and his Daughter legend) “While all this was passing, Aggodagauda, who had met his daughter the moment she came out of the lodge, and being helped by his guardian spirit, took her on his shoulders and hopped off, a hundred steps in one, till he reached the stream, crossed it, and brought back his daughter in triumph to his lodge.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.