the eldest brother (Origin Legend II)
Role: one of the maiden’s brothers · First appears: Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
In Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8, the eldest brother returned to the lodge at sunset with his brothers and asked Tsiké Sas Nátlehi about an odor. When she stayed silent, Coyote came out of hiding and called them his brothers-in-law; the brothers ordered him and their sister to leave. Tsiké Sas Nátlehi had warned Coyote, “My brothers are coming. Some of them are evil of mind and may do you harm.” In Part 10, the brothers came home at nightfall; Léyaneyani was among them.
Relationship record
Life events
- The eldest and the other brothers returned to the lodge, and the brothers ordered their sister and Coyote to leave.(Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8 · 📍 the lodge)
- With: Tsiké Sas Nátlehi Coyote
- “At length one of the brothers turned to his sister and said: ‘What is the cause of this odor? It is not in the wood. It is not in the water. Whence comes it?’ She was silent. He repeated the question three times, yet she made no answer. But when the question had been asked for the fourth time, Coyote jumped out of his hiding-place into the middle of the lodge and cried: ‘It is I, my brothers-in-law!’ ‘Run out there!’ the brothers commanded, and turning to their sister they said: ‘Run out you with him!’”
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 8
- siblings with Tsiké Sas Nátlehi (The eldest is identified as one of the brothers.) “My brothers are coming. Some of them are evil of mind and may do you harm.”
Origin Legend II: Early Events in the Fifth World · Part 10
- siblings with Léyaneyani “It was nightfall when the brothers came home.”
- siblings with Tsiké Sas Nátlehi “Before they lay down to sleep they sent the youngest brother out to hide where he had hidden the night before to watch their sister, and this is what he saw:”
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Extracted from the original text of Navaho Legends. Made with Rho MD.