{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Native American","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim67_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim67_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim67_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/sim67.htm","summary":"This is a Native American oral narrative \u2014 a folk tale likely from an Iroquoian or Northeastern Woodlands tradition \u2014 following the structure of a hero journey and supernatural courtship quest. A young man sent south by his grandfather to find a wife discovers a deserted village and a woman left for dead; when he tries to leave with her beads, he finds himself magically drawn back, and ultimately spends a night wrestling her disembodied spirit (a clot of blood) until dawn breaks its power. He then revives her by dissolving the blood clot in water and feeding it to her \u2014 a strikingly visceral resurrection motif with no divine intermediary, accomplished through the hero's own persistence and practical ingenuity. The story blends domestic concerns (a grandfather wanting a cook, a hunt the next morning) with matter-of-fact supernatural events, treating ghosts and magical entrapment with the same tone as skinning a bear or pounding corn. Animal helpers \u2014 Crow as scout and informant, Turkey as digger \u2014 play structurally important roles, and Crow's complaint about only ever receiving intestines lends a wry, socially observant humor. The tale ends not with individual triumph but with communal consolidation: the chief abandons his enemies and the whole group relocates to build a new, unified settlement around the hero and his grandfather.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Seneca Indian Myths: The Deserted Village","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Native American","translated_text":null,"word_count":1264}