the female guide (Onaiazo legend)

Also known as: his Sun-wife · Role: wife · First appears: Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker

During the night, O-na-wut-a-qut-o dreamed that the female guide led him up through the clouds. Her brother objected that she had taken him from below against the Greatest of the Spirits’ command, but she refused to send him back. When her brother presented O-na-wut-a-qut-o with a bow, arrows and a pipe, the gift was taken as consent to their marriage, and they were considered husband and wife from then on.

After they had lived together for some time, she agreed to O-na-wut-a-qut-o’s wish to return home and conducted him back. One night he left the lodge and never returned; it was believed that his Sun-wife had recalled him to the clouds.

Relationship record

Life events

• In a dream, O-na-wut-a-qut-o followed the female guide up through the clouds.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: O-na-wut-a-qut-o
  • “He dreamed that he saw a very beautiful female come down from the clouds and stand by his side. ‘O-no-wut-a-qut-o,’ said she, ‘I am come for you--step in my tracks.’ The young man did so, and presently felt himself ascending above the tops of the trees--he mounted up, step by step, into the air, and through the clouds.”
• The brother objected to the female guide taking O-na-wut-a-qut-o from below, but she refused to send him back.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend) O-na-wut-a-qut-o
  • “Do you forget that the Greatest of the Spirits had commanded that you should not take away the child from below? Perhaps you suppose that you have concealed O-no-wut-a-qut-o, but do I not know of his coming? If you would not offend me, send him back immediately.” But this address did not alter her purpose. She would not send him back.”
• The brother's gift of consent established O-na-wut-a-qut-o and the female guide as husband and wife.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend) O-na-wut-a-qut-o
  • “He then presented him a bow and arrows, and a pipe of red stone, richly ornamented. This was taken as the word of consent to his marriage; so the two were considered husband and wife from that time.”
• The female guide consented to O-na-wut-a-qut-o returning home and conducted him back.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker)
  • With: O-na-wut-a-qut-o
  • “At length she consented. “Since you are better pleased,” she replied, “with the cares and the ills, and the poverty of the world, than with the peaceful delights of the sky, and its boundless prairies, go! I give you permission, and since I have brought you hither, I will conduct you back;”
• O-na-wut-a-qut-o left the lodge and never returned; it was believed his Sun-wife recalled him to the clouds.(Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker · 📍 the region of the clouds)
  • With: O-na-wut-a-qut-o
  • “Soon afterwards, he went out of the lodge, one night, but never returned. It was believed that his Sun-wife had recalled him to the region of the clouds, where, the tradition asserts, he still dwells, and walks on the daily rounds, which he once witnessed.”

Onaiazo, the Sky-Walker

• siblings with the brother of the female guide (Onaiazo legend) “Presently the brother came in, very richly dressed, and shining as if he had points of silver all over him.”
• married with O-na-wut-a-qut-o “This was taken as the word of consent to his marriage; so the two were considered husband and wife from that time.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends. Made with Rho MD.