{"id":15164,"date":"2021-11-13T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=15164"},"modified":"2022-12-03T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T22:12:12","slug":"a-gust-of-wind-89","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/a-gust-of-wind-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Ojibwe Tale: A Gust of Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tAnichinabe mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/fr\/article\/ojibwes\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The term Ojibwe comes from <em>Utchibou<\/em>, name given to the XVII<sup>e<\/sup> century to a group who lived north of what is now Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Here&#039;s one of their tales: A Gust of Wind.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/\">Ojibway<\/a> were part of a series of very close, but distinct groups, occupying a territory located between the northeast of the bay <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/georgian-mythology\/\">Georgian<\/a> and eastern Lake Superior. These peoples who gathered near present-day Sault Ste. Mary are also called <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/\">Saulteaux<\/a>, a term that today refers primarily to the Ojibway peoples of northwestern Ontario and southeastern Manitoba.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Ojibwe A Gust of Wind\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-anichinabians\/a-gust-of-wind-89\/#A-Gust-of-Wind\" >A Gust of Wind<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A-Gust-of-Wind\"><\/span>A Gust of Wind<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Before there was a man, two women, an old one and her daughter were the<br \/>only humans on earth. The old woman had not needed a man in order to conceive.<br \/>Ahki, the earth, also wa like a woman \u2013 female \u2013 but not as she is now,<br \/>because trees and many animals had not yet been made.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the young woman, the daughter, took her basket out one day to go<br \/>berrying. She had gathered enough and was returning home when a sudden<br \/>gust of wind lifted her buckskin dress up high, baring her body. Geesis,<br \/>the sun, shone on that spot for a short moment and entered the body of<br \/>the young woman, though she hardly noticed it. She was aware of the gust<br \/>of wind but paid no attention.<\/p>\n<p>Time passed. The young woman said to the old one: &quot;I don&#039;t know<br \/>what&#039;s wrong with me, but something is \u00bbMore time passed. The young<br \/>woman&#039;s belly grew bigger, and she said: &quot;Something is moving inside<br \/>me. What can it be? &quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you were going berrying did you meet anyone? \u00bbThe old<br \/>woman asked.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I put nobody. The only thing that happened was a big gust of wind<br \/>which lifted my buckskin dress. The sun was shining. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>The old woman said: \u201cI think you&#039;re going to have a child. Geesis,<br \/>the sun, is the only one who could hav done it, so you will be the mother<br \/>of a sun child. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>The young woman gave birth to two boys, both manitos, supernaturals. They<br \/>were the first human males on this earth \u2013 Geesis&#039;s sons, sons of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>The young mother made cradleboards and put the twins in these hanging<br \/>them up or carrying them on her back, but never letting the babies touch<br \/>the earth. Why didn&#039;t she? Did the Old Woman tell her not to? Nobody knows.<br \/>If she had put the cradleboards on the ground, the babies would have walked<br \/>upright from the moment of their birth, like deer babies. But because<br \/>their mother would not let them touch earth for some months, it now takes<br \/>human babies a year or so to walk. It was that young woman&#039;s fault.<\/p>\n<p>One of the twins was named Stone Boy, a rock. He said: &quot;Put me in<br \/>the fire and heat me up until I glow red hot. They did, and he said:<br \/>\u201cNow for cold water over me. They did this also. That was<br \/>the first sweat bath. The other boy, named Wene-boozhoo, looked like all<br \/>human boys. He became mighty and could do anything; he even talked to<br \/>the animals and gave them their names.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anishinabe Mythology Wiki The term Ojibwe comes from Outchibou, a name given in the 17th century to a group that lived in \u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25277,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15164\/revisions\/25277"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}