Whirlwind

Family: Arikara · Role: animal · First appears: Tale 8 · The Origin of the Awaho-Bundle People

Life events

• The people agreed to offer dog meat first during ceremonies, and the Whirlwind stopped blowing.(Tale 3 · The Origin of the Arikara · Part 3)
  • With: the people Dog
  • “As the Whirlwind came the people cried to the Dog: ‘Let it be as you say. You shall be the first meat in all our offerings in our ceremonies, and you shall be meat for us to eat when there is disease in the villages, but let the Whirlwind stop.’ The Whirlwind stopped blowing.”
• Dog warned Mother-Corn that Whirlwind had been slighted in the ceremony and was angry.(Tale 4 · The Origin of the Arikara · Part 2 · 📍 the camp)
  • With: Dog Mother-Corn
  • “After they had smoked to the gods there came a Dog running into the camp and telling Mother-Corn that one of the gods, the Whirlwind, who stands a little to the southwest, had been slighted in the smoke ceremony and the Whirlwind was angry.”
• Whirlwind changed the language of people it struck, while those on the Cedar-Tree and Rock remained Arikara.(Tale 4 · The Origin of the Arikara · Part 2)
  • With: the people who stood upon the Cedar-Tree and the Rock
  • “The people who stood upon the Cedar-Tree and the Rock remained as the Arikara.”
• Whirlwind left diseases behind so people would become sick and die.(Tale 4 · The Origin of the Arikara · Part 2)
  • With: Mother-Corn
  • “I have left behind me diseases, so that the people will become sick and die.”
• Whirlwind’s attack made Mother-Corn vomit red, yellow, black, and white water and matching ears of corn.(Tale 4 · The Origin of the Arikara · Part 2)
  • With: Mother-Corn
  • “When the Whirlwind struck Mother-Corn she vomited red water, and after the water there came out a red ear of corn. Again she vomited and threw up yellow water, which was followed by a yellow ear of corn. Again she vomited, and there came up black water and a black ear of corn. Now she vomited and there came up white water and a white ear of corn.”
• Screech-Owl and Whirlwind were enemies.(Tale 8 · The Origin of the Awaho-Bundle People)
  • With: Screech-Owl
  • “The Owl and the Whirlwind are enemies.”

Tale 8 · The Origin of the Awaho-Bundle People

• enemies with Screech-Owl “The Owl and the Whirlwind are enemies.”

Also listed in Arikara — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Traditions of the Arikara. Made with Rho MD.