Hatcinoñdoñ

Family: the Seneca · Role: great warrior · First appears: Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee

In Myth 94, Hatcinoñdoñ escaped a burning canebrake, and the Cherokee found no trace of him. While he slept in a second canebrake, two Sky People took him above the sky vault to Haweñni'o, the Thunder-god, who fed him and told him to have his warriors stop fighting and go home. Hatcinoñdoñ returned to his warriors and told them what he had seen, but then led them into battle against the Cherokee, and they returned with scalps.

When Hatcinoñdoñ led another party against the Cherokee, he was captured and taken to their town, where he was tied to a tree for torture by fire. The old woman helped him free himself and told him to follow the creek. After dark, he killed three sleeping hunters and took one man’s clothes and weapons. In the morning he gave the Seneca shout, and his friends came out to meet him; they went home together.

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Life events

Hatcinoñdoñ escaped the burning canebrake and the Cherokee found no trace of him.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee)
- “When the canes had burned down the Cherokee looked for his body in the ashes, but could not find any trace of it, so they went home.”
While Hatcinoñdoñ slept in the second canebrake, two Sky People took him above the sky vault to Haweñni'o, the Thunder-god, who fed him and told him to have his warriors stop fighting and go home.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee)
- With: Haweñni'o
- “He went in and there sat Haweñni'o, the Thunder-god.”
Hatcinoñdoñ returned to his warriors and told them what he had seen.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee)
- “He found his party and told the warriors what he had seen.”
Hatcinoñdoñ led his warriors into battle against the Cherokee, and they returned with scalps.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee)
- “They met the Cherokee and went home with scalps.”
Hatcinoñdoñ was captured and carried to the Cherokee town.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee · 📍 the Cherokee town)
- “He led another party against the Cherokee, but this time he was taken and carried to the Cherokee town.”
Hatcinoñdoñ was tied to a tree for torture by fire.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee · 📍 the Cherokee town)
- “They decided that he should be tortured with fire, so he was tied to a tree, and the wood was piled around him.”
The old woman helped Hatcinoñdoñ free himself and told him to follow the creek.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee)
- With: the old woman (Myth 94)
- “He struggled and finally got his limbs free. Then she said, “Now you are free.”
Hatcinoñdoñ killed three sleeping hunters and took one man's clothes and weapons.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee)
- “He listened until he was sure the men were asleep, then he took one of their hatchets and killed all three, one after another.”
Hatcinoñdoñ found and rejoined his party, and they went home together.(Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee)
- “Then he gave the Seneca shout--Gowe'!--three times and his friends ran out to meet him. They had been afraid that he was killed, but were glad now that they had waited for him. They went home together.”

Myth 94 · Hatcinoñdoñ's Escape from the Cherokee

benefactor: Haweñni'o “He rose and brought half a cake of bread, half of a wild apple, and half a pigeon.”
benefactor: the old woman (Myth 94) “I sent the rain storm, and now you must go down to the creek and follow the current.”

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