Tsul`kalû'
Role: the Slant-eyed Giant, a great hunter who has dominion over the game · First appears: Myth 15 · The Fourfooted Tribes · Part 1
In Myth 81, Tsulkalû' came one dark night to court [[the girl (Myth 81)|the girl]], claiming to be a great hunter, and she let him in. When daylight revealed the giant lying across the âsi, her mother cried out and fled. Tsulkalû' then left for Tsunegûñ'yi.
One night he found a worm formed from the girl’s blood; as he carried it back, it grew into a baby girl. He gave the child to his wife, saying, “Your mother does not like me and abuses our child, so come and let us go to my home.” The girl said goodbye to the mother, took the baby girl, and went with Tsul`kalû' to Tsunegûñ'yi.
Relationship record
Life events
- Tsul
kalû' came to court the girl, and she let him come in.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Kanuga)- With: the girl (Myth 81)
- “One dark night a stranger came to the âsi wanting to court the girl, but she told him her mother would let her marry no one but a good hunter. ‘Well,’ said the stranger, ‘I am a great hunter,’ so she let him come in, and he stayed all night.”
- The mother saw Tsul
kalû' and cried that he looked frightful.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 the âsi)- With: the mother (Myth 81)
- “The old woman came and looked in, and there she saw a great giant, with long slanting eyes (tsul
kalû'), lying doubled up on the floor, with his head against the rafters in the left-hand corner at the back, and his toes scraping the roof in the right-hand corner by the door. She gave only one look and ran back to the house, crying, Usga'seti'yu! Usga'se`ti'yu!”
- Tsul
kalû' left the girl and went toward his own country.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Tsunegûñ'yi)- With: the girl (Myth 81)
- “Then he went off in the direction of Tsunegûñ'yi.”
- Tsul
kalû' found the worm formed from the girl's blood, which grew into a baby girl, and gave her to the girl.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Tsunegûñ'yi)- With: the girl (Myth 81) the baby girl (Myth 81) the mother (Myth 81)
- “He took it up and carried it back to the âsi, and as he walked it took form and began to grow, until, when he reached the âsi, it was a baby girl that he was carrying. He gave it to his wife and said, ‘Your mother does not like me and abuses our child, so come and let us go to my home.’”
- The girl took the baby girl and left with Tsul
kalû' for his home.(Myth 81 · Tsulkalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1 · 📍 Tsunegûñ'yi)- With: the girl (Myth 81) the baby girl (Myth 81) the mother (Myth 81)
- “The girl wanted to be with her husband, so, after telling her mother good-bye, she took up the child and they went off together to Tsunegûñ'yi.”
Myth 81 · Tsul`kalû', the Slant-Eyed Giant · Part 1
- married with the girl (Myth 81) (The text later identifies the husband as Tsul`kalû'.) “At last her mother said to her, “Your husband always leaves before daylight.”
- child: the baby girl (Myth 81) “Your mother does not like me and abuses our child, so come and let us go to my home.”
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