the mother (Myth 81)

Role: mother · First appears: Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1

In Myth 81, the mother lived at Kanuga with her daughter, the girl, while her son, the older brother, lived elsewhere. When she saw [[Tsulkalû']] at the âsi, she ran back crying that he looked frightful. After Tsulkalû' gave her daughter a baby girl and asked her to leave with him, the girl said goodbye to her mother and went with him to his home.

When the older brother returned to find his sister gone, he saw his mother lonely and set out to find her. Four years later, the girl told her mother and brother they could see her husband if they came early the next morning. They arrived too late to see Tsul`kalû' and his family, but found the deer meat the girl had promised.

Relationship record

Life events

• The mother saw Tsulkalû' and cried that he looked frightful.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 the âsi)
  • With: Tsul`kalû'
  • “The old woman came and looked in, and there she saw a great giant, with long slanting eyes (tsulkalû'), lying doubled up on the floor, with his head against the rafters in the left-hand corner at the back, and his toes scraping the roof in the right-hand corner by the door. She gave only one look and ran back to the house, crying, Usga'seti'yu! Usga'se`ti'yu!”
• Tsulkalû' found the worm formed from the girl's blood, which grew into a baby girl, and gave her to the girl.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Tsunegûñ'yi)
  • With: Tsul`kalû' the girl (Myth 81) the baby girl (Myth 81)
  • “He took it up and carried it back to the âsi, and as he walked it took form and began to grow, until, when he reached the âsi, it was a baby girl that he was carrying. He gave it to his wife and said, ‘Your mother does not like me and abuses our child, so come and let us go to my home.’”
• The girl took the baby girl and left with Tsulkalû' for his home.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Tsunegûñ'yi)
  • With: Tsul`kalû' the girl (Myth 81) the baby girl (Myth 81)
  • “The girl wanted to be with her husband, so, after telling her mother good-bye, she took up the child and they went off together to Tsunegûñ'yi.”
• The older brother learned from his mother that his sister had gone away, and set out to find her.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Kanuga)
  • With: the older brother (Myth 81)
  • “He was sorry to see his mother so lonely, so he said he would go after his sister and try to find her and bring her back.”
• The sister told her mother and brother they could see her husband if they came early the next morning.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2)
  • With: the girl (Myth 81) the older brother (Myth 81)
  • “After four years had passed she came one day to her mother's house and said her husband had been hunting in the woods near by, and they were getting ready to start home to-morrow, and if her mother and brother would come early in the morning they could see her husband.”
• The mother and brother arrived too late to see the sister's husband, but found the promised deer meat.(Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2)
  • With: the older brother (Myth 81)
  • “They came to the place early the next morning, but Tsul`kalû' and his family were already gone. On the drying poles they found the bodies of freshly killed deer hanging, as the girl had promised”

Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1

• child: the girl (Myth 81) “A long time ago a widow lived with her one daughter at the old town of Kanuga on Pigeon river.”
• child: the older brother (Myth 81) “Now, the girl had an older brother, who lived with his own wife in another settlement, and when he heard that his sister was married he came to pay a visit to her and her new husband, but when he arrived at Kanuga his mother told him his sister had taken her child and gone away with her husband, nobody knew where.”

Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 2

• child: the older brother (Myth 81) “the mother ran to tell her son.”

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