{"id":23971,"date":"2022-10-16T21:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=23971"},"modified":"2022-10-16T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:21:01","slug":"mais-choctaw","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/choctaw-mythology\/but-choctaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Choctaw Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"23971\" class=\"elementor elementor-23971\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1e390fc elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1e390fc\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a73626\" data-id=\"4a73626\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a911614 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"a911614\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/choctaw-mythology\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Choctaw-Chickasaw Mythology<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8a64b91\" data-id=\"8a64b91\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8881734 elementor-align-justify elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"8881734\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/ChoctawCornLegend-Choctaw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Wiki<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a081946 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a081946\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3ffba3e\" data-id=\"3ffba3e\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c54b382 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c54b382\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The\u00a0<strong>Chactas<\/strong> (Where <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/choctaw-mythology\/\">Choctaws<\/a>) are a Native American tribe native to the southeastern United States (Mississippi, <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/creek-seminole-mythology\/\">Alabama<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-muskogeens-2136\/\">Louisiana<\/a>). here is <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">legend<\/a> corn in english <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/choctaw-mythology\/\">Choctaw<\/a>.<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-9347 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Choctaw corn\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" title=\"\"><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1e47fbd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1e47fbd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-00d66e5\" data-id=\"00d66e5\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-402742b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"402742b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div 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class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5910558 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5910558\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-c23fde8\" data-id=\"c23fde8\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4384b31 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4384b31\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The origin of corn is connected with a myth called by Cushman the<br \/>story of Ohoyo Osh Chisba \u201cThe Unknown Woman. \u00bb With Cushman&#039;s<br \/>usual emotional setting this runs as follows:<\/p><p>In the days of many moons ago, two Choctaw hunters were encamped<br \/>for the night in the swamps of the bend of the Alabama river\u2026.<br \/>The two hunters, having been unsuccessful in the chase of that and<br \/>the preceding day, found themselves on that night with nothing with<br \/>which to satisfy the cravings of hunger except a black hawk which<br \/>they had shot with an arrow.<\/p><p>Sad reflections filled their hearts as they thought of their sad<br \/>disappointments and of their suffering families at home. While the<br \/>gloomy future spread over them its dark pall of despondency, all<br \/>serving to render them unhappy indeed.<\/p><p>They cooked the hawk and sat down to partake of their poor and<br \/>scanty supper, when their attention was drawn from their gloomy<br \/>foreboding&#039;s by the low but distinct tones, strange yet soft and<br \/>plaintive as the melancholy notes of the dove, but produced by what<br \/>they were unable to even conjecture.<\/p><p>At different intervals it broke the deep silence of the early night<br \/>with its seemingly muffled notes of woe; and as nearly full<br \/>moon slowly ascended the eastern sky the strange sounds became more<br \/>frequent and distinct.<\/p><p>With eyes dilated and fluttering heart they looked up and down<br \/>the river to learn whence the sounds proceeded, but no object except<br \/>the sandy shores glittering in the moonlight greeted their eyes,<br \/>while the dark waters of the river seemed alone to give response<br \/>in murmuring tones to the strange notes that continued to float<br \/>upon the night air from a direction they could not definitely locate;<\/p><p>but happening to look behind them in the direction opposite the<br \/>moon they saw a woman of wonderful beauty standing upon a mound<br \/>a few rods distant.<\/p><p>Like an illuminated shadow, she had suddenly appeared out of the<br \/>moon-lighted forest. She was loosely clad in snow-white love,<br \/>and bore in the folds of her drapery a wreath of fragrant flowers.<br \/>She beckoned them to approach, while she seemed surrounded by a<br \/>halo of light that gave to her a supernatural appearance.<\/p><p>Their imagination now influenced them to believe her to be the<br \/>Great Spirit of their nation, and that the flowers she bore were<br \/>representatives of loved ones who had passed from earth to bloom<br \/>in the Spirit Land\u2026<\/p><p>The mystery was solved. At once they approached (the spot) where<br \/>she stood, and offered their assistance in any way they could be<br \/>of service to her. She replied she was very hungry, whereupon one<br \/>of them ran and brought the roasted hawk and handed it to her.<\/p><p>She accepted it with grateful thanks; but, after eating a small<br \/>portion of it, she handed the remainder back to them replying that<br \/>she would remember their kindness when she returned to her home<br \/>in the happy hunting grounds of her father, who was Shilup Chitoh<br \/>Osh \u2013 The Great Spirit of the Choctaws. She then told them that<br \/>when the next mid-summer moon should come they must meet her at<br \/>the mound upon which she was then standing.<\/p><p>She then bade them an affectionate adieu, and was at once borne<br \/>away upon a gentle breeze and, mysteriously as she came, so she<br \/>disappeared. The two hunters returned to their camp for the night<br \/>and early next morning sought their homes, but kept the strange<br \/>incident to themselves, a deep secret.<\/p><p>When the designated time rolled around the mid-summer full moon<br \/>found the two hunters at the foot of the mound but Ohoyo Chishba<br \/>Osh was nowhere to be seen. Then remembering she told them they<br \/>must come to the very spot where she was then standing, they at<br \/>once ascended the mound and found it covered with a strange plant,<br \/>which yielded an excellent food, which was ever afterwards cultivated<br \/>by the Choctaws, and named by them Tunchi (corn).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mythology Choctaw-Chickasaw Wiki The Chactas (or Choctaws) are a Native American tribe from the southeastern United States (Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana). 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