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Cherokee · October 13, 2026 · 12:51

Myths of the Cherokee — Part 14 of 22 (The Haunted Whirlpool · Yahula · The Iroquois Wars)

Myths of the Cherokee — Part 14 of 22 (The Haunted Whirlpool · Yahula · The Iroquois Wars)
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In this episode

Whirlpools, a lost trader, and a peace. At Un'tiguhi', the Pot-in-the-water, a canoe is drawn into the Suck, and the survivor looks down through the water to a company beckoning below. Yahula of Dahlonega tastes the Immortals' food and can never eat with humankind again — his visits home, his stone house, and the songs heard on Yahula creek. Then the Seneca Peacemakers: Mooney's tradition of the Cherokee–Iroquois wars, compressed, and Wafford's account at full length — the lost embassy, the chief who shielded the messenger with his own body, the parable of the covered spring, and the wampum belts kept for a century, until the fire at John Ross's house. Per the shelf's exclusion rule, two items of Mooney's printed sequence are omitted from this part — No. 88, the first-contact anecdotes, and No. 90, the story of Hiadeoni — and are documented in the exclusion register. Source: James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), public domain; fresh in-house renderings faithful to Mooney's record, told in Mooney's order.

Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.

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Chapters:

0:00 Opening

0:54 The Haunted Whirlpool

2:54 Yahula

6:42 The Iroquois Wars