the Falcon

Also known as: Falcon · Role: younger brother of the Eagle · First appears: Section 68 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Eagle

In Section 68 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Eagle, the Eagle told the fathers to send for his younger brother, the Falcon, to seek the Maidens of Corn. He described him as “strong of flight” but less powerful than himself, and said he flew nearer the ground before sunrise.

In Section 69 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Falcon, messengers told the Falcon that “Thy elder brother hath bidden us seek thee.” The Falcon searched but found no trace of the Maidens of Corn, and told the sorrowing fathers and mothers that he had looked behind every copse and cliff-shadow.

Relationship record

Life events

• The Eagle told the fathers to send for the Falcon to seek the maidens.(Section 68 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Eagle)
  • With: the Eagle
  • “Send you, therefore, for my younger brother the Falcon; strong of flight is he, yet not so potently strong as I, and nearer the ground he takes his way ere sunrise.”
• The messengers told the Falcon that his elder brother, the Eagle, had bidden them seek him.(Section 69 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Falcon)
  • With: the Eagle
  • “Thy elder brother hath bidden us seek thee.”
• The Falcon failed to find the Maidens of Corn.(Section 69 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Falcon)
  • “he told the sorrowing fathers and mothers that he had looked behind every copse and cliff-shadow, but of the maidens had found no trace.”

Section 68 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Eagle

• siblings with the Eagle “Send you, therefore, for my younger brother the Falcon; strong of flight is he, yet not so potently strong as I, and nearer the ground he takes his way ere sunrise.”

Section 69 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Falcon

• siblings with the Eagle “Thy elder brother hath bidden us seek thee.”

Section 70 · The Seeking of the Maidens of Corn by the Raven

• siblings with the Eagle “our grandfather the Eagle, nor yet his younger brother the Falcon”

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Extracted from the original text of Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths. Made with Rho MD.