{"id":22280,"date":"2022-08-07T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=22280"},"modified":"2022-08-07T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T15:17:29","slug":"conte-kiowa-coming-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/kiowa-coming-home-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiowa Story: Coming Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tKiowa-Comanche mythology<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/ComingHome-Kiowa.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/\">Kiowas<\/a><\/strong> are a Native American nation that lived primarily on the plains of western <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-muskogeens-2136\/\">Texas<\/a>, Oklahoma and eastern New Mexico at the time of European arrival. Here is their tale: Coming Home.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Coming Home\" 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-kiowa-comanche\/kiowa-coming-home-tale\/#Coming-Home\" >Coming Home<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Coming-Home\"><\/span>Coming Home<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Long ago before the <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythology-kiowa-comanche\/\">Comanche<\/a> had the horse or the gun, winter was<br \/>very hard on the people. Deep snows hide the tracks of the animals<br \/>and made it hard for the hunters to travel. It was especially hard<br \/>when the snows came early.<\/p>\n<p>So it was the winter that the snows came before the leaves had<br \/>fallen from the trees. The people did not yet have sufficient stores<br \/>laid in, and the elders would only shake their heads when asked<br \/>what was to be done. Soon it was apparent that many would not survive<br \/>to see the spring.<\/p>\n<p>Every day the hunters would set out in the darkness of the early<br \/>morning. And late each evening they would return with empty hands;<br \/>half-frozen and exhausted from pushing their way through the ever<br \/>deepening snow. Yatenah`te was always the first hunter to leave<br \/>and the last to return. Being the youngest and strongest of the<br \/>hunters, he pushed himself to go farther and to stay out longer<br \/>than anyone else.<\/p>\n<p>At first Yahtenah`te hunted the plains surrounding the camp. Then<br \/>he journeyed to the foothills. And finally entered the Wichita Mountains<br \/>in his search for game to feed his people. And so it was that he<br \/>became lost.<\/p>\n<p>Yahtenah`te tried to retrace his steps but the wind and snow had<br \/>covered his tracks. He tried traveling North, South, East and West<br \/>in hopes of finding a landmark that would lead him back to the village.<br \/>But no matter which way he went, he remained lost. Days turned to<br \/>weeks and weeks into seasons. As the years passed the memory of<br \/>his village never left him, and he searched first one valley and<br \/>then another in hope of finding the way back.<\/p>\n<p>One day Yahtenah`te sat by a stream looking at his reflection.<br \/>His hair had now grown thin and white and his weathered face was<br \/>wrinkled with age. As the thought on his life alone, he noticed<br \/>to his amazement that the lines and creases on his face matched<br \/>the hills and valleys of the mountain. He searched the furrows around<br \/>his eyes and saw the summer range of the mule deer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the creases<br \/>of his chin he saw the steep bluffs of the central range, where<br \/>he had lured many bison to their death for food and hides. Then<br \/>he noticed a line he did not recognize from the terrain. Wondering<br \/>if this was a place he had never seen before, he collected his weapons<br \/>and set out.<\/p>\n<p>Early the next morning he reached the mouth of a broad, shallow<br \/>ravine that he had never seen before. As he followed it, he could<br \/>hear distant voices. And on the wind he was sure he could smell<br \/>the smoke of a <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/cook-mythology\/\">chef<\/a> fire. Turning a bend in the ravine he saw his<br \/>village in the distance. Painted tepees. Children running and laughing.<br \/>Men tending and repairing their weapons. Women preparing food. Hey<br \/>knew in his heart that this was his village.<\/p>\n<p>Yahtenah`te paused. He thought of his years alone. Of his journeys<br \/>in the mountains. Of how the Fingerprints of the Creator are upon<br \/>us all. And how we are each given all the gifts we need in this<br \/>life. Raising his arms to the sky, he gave thanks to the Creator.<br \/>And returned Home.<\/p>\n<p>This was the Kiowa&#039;s story Coming Home.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiowa-Comanche Mythology Wiki The Kiowas are a Native American nation that lived primarily on the plains of western Texas, Oklahoma... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3983,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22280","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22280","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=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22284,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22280\/revisions\/22284"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}