the Eagle

Family: the birds (ballplay) · Role: captain · First appears: Myth 36 · The Ball Game of the Birds and Animals

Life events

The animals challenged the birds to a ballplay, and the birds accepted.(Myth 36 · The Ball Game of the Birds and Animals)
- With: the Bear the Terrapin the Deer the Hawk Tla'nuwa (Myth 36)
- “Once the animals challenged the birds to a great ballplay, and the birds accepted.”
The bird captain pitied Tla'meha and allowed him to join the birds.(Myth 36 · The Ball Game of the Birds and Animals)
- With: Tla'meha
- “Then the bird captain pitied them and wanted to take them.”
The birds made wings for Tla'meha, the Bat.(Myth 36 · The Ball Game of the Birds and Animals)
- With: the Hawk Tla'meha
- “So they took two pieces of leather from the drumhead and cut them into shape for wings, and stretched them with cane splints and fastened them on to the forelegs of one of the small animals, and in this way came Tla'meha, the Bat.”
The bird captain tested Tewa, who caught the ball and carried it through the air to another tree.(Myth 36 · The Ball Game of the Birds and Animals)
- With: Tewa
- “To try him the bird captain threw up the ball, when the Flying Squirrel sprang off the limb after it, caught it in his teeth and carried it through the air to another tree nearly across the bottom.”

rivals with the Bear “Once the animals challenged the birds to a great ballplay, and the birds accepted.”
recipient: Tla'meha “So they took two pieces of leather from the drumhead and cut them into shape for wings, and stretched them with cane splints and fastened them on to the forelegs of one of the small animals, and in this way came Tla'meha, the Bat.”

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