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Unktena - Cherokee Legend
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Uktena - Cherokee Legend
Andrea Perez, Alicia Perez, Kinsey Hein, Bretta Wilcox
The Snake Boy
Origin
- Boy would go bird hunting
- Boy would give the birds to his grandmother
- The family would get jealous
- The boy said he would leave his family for the grandmother.
- He went hunting again, this time coming back with deer horns.
- He went to the hot house and asked his grandmother to leave him for the night.
- Grandmother came back and found an uktena.
- Grandmother would be in distress and family would encourage her to be with the boy.
- This uktena terrified the town.
- The uktena slithered to the river and dove in.
- Grandmother would soon follow.
References & Fun Facts
- Long ago
- Sun became angry with people on earth
- Sent sickness to kill them
- Little man changed into a monterous snake
- Goal: Kill the Sun
- Sadly, Utkenna failed
- Instead the people sent a rattle snake, causing the monster to get jealous and angry
- Made the people afraid of him
- Tried to send him to the spirit world withother dangerous things
- Unktena left other behind to hide in pools
- If attempted to kill, hunter will see a bright light causing him to be dazed and confused and to run toward the snake instead of away from it.
- While asleep, the snake will bring death to the family.
Cherokee Relation
- Story to explain a possible a situation
Ex: Keep children away from rivers
Too hot, Let's kill the sun!
Possible ancestor of the rattle snake
- Uktena is more commonly known as a horned serpent.
- The Horned Serpent was recently revealed to be house mascot for Ilvermorny School of North American Wizardry by J.K Rowling in 2016.
- Wikipedia
- Eweb Tribe
- Native Languges
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