{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Native American","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim54_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim54_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim54_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/sim54.htm","summary":"This is a Native American oral narrative \u2014 a myth or traditional tale likely from a northeastern or northeastern woodlands tradition \u2014 centered on a young man's struggle to protect his wife from his cannibalistic uncle. The story follows the nephew as he discovers his uncle is a man-eater who has already killed three previous women, and he attempts to outwit him through elaborate magical precautions: creating a circuitous false trail, shrinking his wife and firing her inside an arrow to a distant safe house, and enlisting an invisible brother as protector. Despite these efforts, the wife is ultimately killed when she inadvertently reveals the crossing method to the uncle \u2014 the tale's pointed moral that disobedience or a single lapse of discipline is fatal. The narrative then pivots to the discovery of the couple's twin sons hidden in a hollow log by the uncle, who speak and recognize their father, opening a continuation focused on vengeance. Distinctive to this text is the logic of supernatural power as something distributed and contestable \u2014 both the uncle and the young man possess different orders of magic, the wife has some power of her own, and the invisible brother operates as a kind of ambient guardian \u2014 making the conflict feel less like good-versus-evil and more like a contest of competing abilities where attention and obedience are themselves forms of power.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Seneca Indian Myths: A Man Pursued by his Uncle and by hi...","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Native American","translated_text":null,"word_count":4689}