Myths of the Cherokee — Part 17 of 22 (The Mounds and the Constant Fire · The Star Feathers)
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Traditions and anecdotes. The giants from the west, received as friends. The Lost Cherokee of 1721, found again beyond the plains. The mounds and the constant fire — the building of a townhouse mound, the fire keeper's art, the Green Corn new fire, the sacred box, the seven-stemmed peace pipe, and the stone drum — told with the reverence of Mooney's record. Then the household comedies: the ignorant housekeeper and the unshelled walnuts; the man in the stump, dragged out by the mother bear herself; the two lazy hunters — one exposed by his own scorched moccasins, the other by the deer he carried past the same door twice a day; and the Star Feathers prophet, whose heaven was a beaver lodge. Source: James Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), public domain; fresh in-house renderings faithful to Mooney's record, told in Mooney's order.
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