Hahgwehdiyu
Hahgwehdiyu, meaning Sapling, is one of the twin sons of Atahensic who was born normally. After his mother's death, he created the sky and made the Sun from her head, then created the Moon and Stars from her breasts and tasked them as his sisters to guard the night sky. He gave the rest of his mother's body to the earth as the Great Mother from whom all life came, and planted a seed into her corpse from which corn grew as a gift to mankind.
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When
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Tekawerahkwa, Ha-wen-ni-yu, sister spirits of the corn, beans, and squash, Atahensic
- enemy of
- Hahgwehdaetgah
- sibling of
- Hahgwehdaetgah, Do-yo-da-no
- child of
- Atahensic, Tekawerahkwa
- syncretized with
- Iosheka
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Source passages
“She then gave birth to her twin sons: Hahgwehdiyu (transl. Sapling) and Hahgwehdaetgah (transl. Flint). Hahgwehdiyu was born normally”
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“The good twin, Hahgwehdiyu or Teharonhiakwako (transl. Sapling), was born normally; the evil twin, Hahgwehdaetgah or Sawiskera (transl. Flint), forced his way out from under his mother's arm, killing her during childbirth. Hahgwehdiyu shaped the sky and created the sun from his mother's face saying "you shall rule here where your face will shine forever."”
#20451 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001