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Sacred Texts: Native American

Seneca Indian Myths: Okteondon and His Uncle, The Planter, or, Winter Delaying Spring

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Characters | OKTEONDOn | Roots, or the Rooted One | | HAIENTHWÛS | Planter | | WADYOnYOnDYES, | Wild Duck People (Wild Duck is T’onwe) | | HÓTHO | Cold Weather | OKTEONDOn lived in the woods with his uncle HAIENTHWÛS. The young man lay fastened under the roots of an elm tree which grew through his uncle's bark house. When very small, his uncle had hidden him there so nobody could carry him off.