{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Native American","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim39_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim39_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim39_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/nam/iro/sim/sim39.htm","summary":"This is a Seneca oral narrative (likely transcribed from the Haudenosaunee/Iroquois storytelling tradition) featuring G\u00e9nonsgwa, the Stone Coat \u2014 a supernatural being associated with cold and frost. The story follows a group of Seneca hunters who befriend a Stone Coat, who helps them with their hunt by magically compressing and restoring their loads of meat and skins. In a second winter visit, one hunter is brought to the Stone Coat's home, where the elder Stone Coat arranges his marriage to his daughter as a gesture of alliance, strengthening the hunter with magical treatments that grant him extraordinary physical power. A rival Stone Coat, spurned in his own desire to marry the daughter, challenges the Seneca to a foot-race with lethal stakes; the father-in-law covertly aids his son-in-law, who wins by surviving a trick with a bent hemlock tree and ultimately beheads his opponent. The tale is notable for its depiction of a cooperative, protective relationship between humans and a typically dangerous supernatural being, presenting the Stone Coat not as a monster but as a potential kinsman and patron whose favor confers real-world benefits like hunting luck and physical strength.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Seneca Indian Myths: Stone Coat, Cold and Frost","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Native American","translated_text":null,"word_count":502}