{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Native American","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim74_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim74_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_nam_iro_sim_sim74_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/sim74.htm","summary":"This is an Iroquois (likely Seneca) oral myth recorded in ethnographic tradition, centering on a hero named DZOG\u00c9On who is abducted via a supernatural sleep-trick by a woman who lures him into a basket and carries him to her family's home, where he becomes her husband. The mother-in-law, hostile to her new son-in-law, engineers two trials disguised as dream-prophecies: first commanding him to slay NYAGWAIHE, the Ancient of Bears, then to host a feast for the DAGWANOEnYENTs \u2014 Flying Heads (Whirlwinds) \u2014 hoping the food supply will run out and they will kill him instead. DZOG\u00c9On succeeds at both, then reverses the trap: he seals the Flying Heads and his treacherous mother-in-law inside a stone cabin and commands it to burn red-hot until all within are destroyed. The tale is distinctive for its specific named supernatural beings drawn from Iroquois cosmology and for its portrait of the mother-in-law as the primary antagonist whose domestic scheming drives the plot \u2014 a less common danger-source than the monsters themselves. It closes with a miniature magical escape across a frozen lake via puffball vessels conjured by the west wind, a detail that gives the story an unusually whimsical texture alongside its violence.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Seneca Indian Myths: The Feast of the Whirlwinds","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Native American","translated_text":null,"word_count":908}