the Locust
Also known as: Wonistsídi · Role: Locust · First appears: Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
In Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6, the Locust, also known as Wonistsídi, reached the upper world and returned to tell what he had seen, emerging onto a little island in the centre of a lake. The black and yellow Grebes challenged him to match what they could do, offering half the world if he succeeded; he passed an arrow through his heart and won it. The blue and shining Grebes gave him the same challenge, and after he passed the arrow through his heart again, they departed, leaving the land to him.
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Life events
- The Locust reached the upper world and returned to tell what he had seen.(Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6)
- “When he came back he had this story to tell: He had gotten through to the upper world, and came out on a little island in the centre of a lake.”
- The Locust passed an arrow through his heart and won half the world from the Grebes.(Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6)
- With: the black Grebe the yellow Grebe
- “We give you a challenge. If you can do as we do, we shall give you one half of the world; if you cannot, you must die.”
- The Locust passed an arrow through his heart and the Grebes left the land to him.(Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6)
- With: the blue Grebe the shining Grebe
- “Again he passed the arrow through his heart and the Grebes departed, leaving the land to the locust.”
Origin Legend I: The Story of the Emergence · Part 6
- rivals with the black Grebe “We give you a challenge. If you can do as we do, we shall give you one half of the world; if you cannot, you must die.”
- rivals with the yellow Grebe “We give you a challenge. If you can do as we do, we shall give you one half of the world; if you cannot, you must die.”
- rivals with the blue Grebe “They spoke to him as the other Grebes had spoken, and gave him the same challenge.”
- rivals with the shining Grebe “They spoke to him as the other Grebes had spoken, and gave him the same challenge.”
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Extracted from the original text of Navaho Legends. Made with Rho MD.