Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths

CONTENTS (2)

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Introduction 43

Part 1. Material Collected by Jeremiah Curtin

FICTION

1.	The sister and her six elder brothers	75
2.	The child and his uncle	81
3.	Djogeon and his uncle	84
4.	The woman who married a great serpent	86
5.	The ghost woman and the hunter	90
6.	Hahnowa and his forces on the warpath	92
7.	The old man’s grandson and the chief of the deserted village	95
8.	The man who married a buffalo woman	98
9.	A woman and her bear lover	102
10.	The fox and the rabbit	105
11.	The snake with two heads	106
12.	A hunter pursued by Genonsgwa	106
13.	The grandmother and her granddaughter	111
14.	The woman who became a snake from eating fish	111
15.	Gaqga makes a journey and kills many people	113
16.	Ohohwa and the two sisters	115
17.	A great snake battle	117
18.	The Ongwe Ias and his younger brother	118
19.	HaieÑdoÑnis and Yenogeauns	121
20.	The man with a panther-skin robe and his brother with a turkey-skin robe	127
21.	DeadoeÑdjadases and the old woman’s grandson	135
22.	Hat?hondas (the Listener)	139
23.	The story of the Ohohwa people	144
24.	The chestnut tree guarded by the seven sisters	147
25.	The otter’s heart and the claw fetishes	151
26.	The seven sisters who produce wampum	154
27.	The forsaken infant and Gaha	160
28.	The old man and the boy	162
29.	The story of the girls who went for a husband	166
30.	The creation of man	168
31.	Ganiagwaihegowa	169
32.	The man who became a fish, and a Ganiagwaihe	169
33.	A dead man speaks to his mother through the fire	172
34.	The potent boy	176
35.	The faithless wife and the three old men	180
36.	The Dagwanoenyent and her husband	187
37.	A raccoon story [40]	191
38.	The self-sacrifice of two dogs for their master	193
39.	The three young women	195
40.	Hinon and the Seneca warriors	197
41.	HodadeÑon and Yenyent?hwus	199
42.	The uncle and his nephew	223
43.	Hinon saves a woman from suicide	228
44.	The crawfish and the raccoon	229
45.	The race between the turtle and the bear	229
46.	The woman who became a man-eater through the orenda of her husband’s dogs	231
47.	Ganyadjigowa	236
48.	Hadent?heni and Hanigongendat?ha	251
49.	Dagwanoenyent	261
50.	The shaman and his nephew	262
51.	The horned snake and the young woman	268
52.	The man pursued by his sister-in-law	270
53.	The story of bloody hand	273
54.	The seven stars of the dipper	276
55.	The story of the two brothers	277
56.	Hodionskon	283
57.	The cannibal uncle, his nephew, and the nephew’s invisible brother	285
58.	Doonongaes and Tsodiqgwadon	296

LEGENDS

59.	Genonsgwa	341
60.	The grandmother and her grandson	347
61.	Heart squeezing and the dance of naked persons	355
62.	Hot?ho, the Winter God	356
63.	S?hagodiyoweqgowa and his three brothers	357
64.	The moose wife	361
65.	S?hagodiyoweqgowa	365
66.	The porcupine’s grandson and the bear	365
67.	Genonsgwa	369
68.	Hinon Hohawaqk and his grandmother	372
69.	Hagowanen and Ot'hegwenhda	376
70.	Okteondon and HaieÑt?hwus. Part I	389
71.	Okteondon and HaieÑt?hwus. Part II	399
72.	Uncle and nephew and the white otters	401
73.	Deoyadastat?he and Hodjowiski	406
74.	A genesis tradition	409
75.	The two brothers and the mice fetishes	415
76.	The orphan	417
77.	The great worm and Hinon	420
78.	The chipmunk and the bear	421
79.	The great white beaver and the Lake of the Enchanted Waters	422

TRADITIONS

80.	Ganon, the Seneca war chief	428
81.	Hatcinondon: A historical tradition	432
82.	Godiont and the S?hagodiyoweqgowa	436
83.	S?hagodiyoweqgowa [41]	437
84.	S?hagodiyoweqgowa	437
85.	Genonsgwa	437
86.	Genonsgwa	439
87.	Genonsgwa	440
88.	Genonsgwa	440
89.	Genonsgwa	441
90.	Bald Eagle sends Mud Turtle around the world	450
91.	The poor hunter and Djogeon	452
92.	The man killed by the three hunters	453
93.	Hinon and the Iroquois	456

TALES

94.	A shaman’s deed	457
95.	S?hagodiyoweqgowa (modern)	457
96.	S?hagodiyoweqgowa	458
97.	The vampire skeleton	458

MYTHS

98.	A tale of the sky world	460
99.	S?hagodiyoweqgowa and Hot?hoh	462
100.	The morning star and the cannibal wife	464
101.	The woman and the cannibal thunder	469
102.	Gaqga and Sgagedi	472
103.	Dagwanoenyent and Gaasyendiet?ha	474
104.	Dagwanoenyentgowa S?hagodigendji and Yenonsgwa	481
105.	The twelve brothers and their uncle, Dagwanoenyent	485
106.	Ongwe Ias and his brother, Dagwanoenyent	488

MEDICAL NOTE

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Notes on the medicine nikahnegaah

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Part 2. Seneca Legends and Myths, Collected by J.N.B. Hewitt

108.	The legend of Hayanowe (He-the-fleet-footed)	495
109.	OÑgwe? HaÑges'?hÄ' and Gajihsondis (Skin-of-man and Spike-hitter)	501
110.	Gajihsondis, the Amulet-hitter	519
111.	The legend of Honenhineh and his younger brothers	525
112.	The legend of Godasiyo	537
113.	A legend of an anthropomorphic tribe of rattlesnakes	539
114.	The twins: grandsons of Gahon?dji'da'?honk	543
115.	The legend of the misogamist	555
116.	The acts of the seventh son, DjeÑgo'?se?	565
117.	The legend of HodadeÑon and his elder sister	573
118.	The legend of Gadjis'dodo? and S?hogon?'gwa's	586
119.	The legend of Deodyatgaowen (Deodia'tgao'ween? = His-body-is-bifid or two-cleft)	607
120.	An address of thanksgiving to the powers of the Master of Life	632
121.	A corn legend and a flood story	636
122.	The legend of man’s acquisition of corn	642
123.	The bean woman (a fragment)	648
124.	The legend of Onenha (the corn) [42]	649
125.	The origin of white corn, or kaneÑhageÑat	652
126.	The origin of the Porcupine people or clan	654
127.	The origin of the Bear songs and dances	658
128.	The origin of the Pigeon songs and dances	663
129.	The legend of Hahadodagwat?ha	666
130.	The story of Hahskwahot (= It-standing-stone)	680
131.	The legend of Genonsgwa	681
132.	The legend of the Stone Coats (Genonsgwa)	682
133.	The story of the white pigeon, the chief of the pigeons	694
134.	The weeping of the Corn, and Bean, and Squash people	701
135.	S?hagowenot?ha, the spirit of the tides	705
136.	S?hagowenot?ha (text), with interlinear translation	715
137.	The legend of DoÄdanegeÑ and HotkwisdadegeÑa	743
138.	The legend of DoÄdanegeÑ and HotkwisdadegeÑa (text), with interlinear translation	756

Notes 791 [43]

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