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Sacred Texts: Native American

Seneca Indian Myths: A Battle Between Frost and Whirlwind

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Characters | DAGWANOEnYENT GOWA | Whirlwind or Cyclone | | GÉNOnSKWA | Frost and Cold | | HADIQSADOn GÉNOnSKWA GANYUDAI, | The Grave of Frost, or the so-called Stone Coats | DAGWANOEnYENT (Whirlwind), an old woman, the oldest of all her people, lived in the forest with her two grandchildren, a boy and a girl. One day when the grandmother was out digging roots a GÉNOnSKWA (Frost and Great Cold) woman came to the cabin, picked up the little girl and, after speaking kindly, telling her she was…