{"id":21725,"date":"2022-08-01T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=21725"},"modified":"2022-08-01T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T18:00:06","slug":"conte-tsimshian-the-princess-who-rejected-her-cousin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/haida-tlingit-tsimshian-mitologia\/cuento-tsimshian-la-princesa-que-rechazo-a-su-prima\/","title":{"rendered":"Conte Tsimshian: la princesa que rechaz\u00f3 a su prima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/haida-tlingit-tsimshian-mitologia\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMitolog\u00eda Haida-Tlingit-Tsimshian<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/ThePrincessWhoRejectedHerCousin-Tsimshian.html\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>los\u00a0<strong>Tsimshians<\/strong>\u00a0(Sm&#039;algyax:\u00a0<strong>Ts&#039;msyan<\/strong>) son un pueblo ind\u00edgena de Am\u00e9rica del Norte. Sus comunidades se originan en el estuario del r\u00edo Skeena. Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1 su historia: La princesa que rechaz\u00f3 a su prima (es).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"La princesa que rechaz\u00f3 a su prima\" 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\">Contenido<\/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=\"Alternar tabla de contenidos\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Palanca<\/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\/es\/haida-tlingit-tsimshian-mitologia\/cuento-tsimshian-la-princesa-que-rechazo-a-su-prima\/#The-Princess-Who-Rejected-her-Cousin\" >La princesa que rechaz\u00f3 a su prima<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The-Princess-Who-Rejected-her-Cousin\"><\/span>La princesa que rechaz\u00f3 a su prima<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There was a custom among our people that the nephew of the chief<br \/>\nhad to marry the chief&rsquo;s daughter, because the tribe of the chief<br \/>\nwanted the chief&rsquo;s nephew to be the heir of his uncle and to inherit<br \/>\nhis place after his death.<\/p>\n<p>This custom has gone on, generation after generation, all along<br \/>\nuntil now, and the places of the head men have thus been inherited.<br \/>\nSo it is with this story.<\/p>\n<p>A very long time ago there was a great village with many people.<br \/>\nThey had only one chief. There was also his sister. They were the<br \/>\nonly two chiefs in the large town. The chief also had a beautiful<br \/>\ndaughter, and the chief&rsquo;s sister had a fine son. All the people<br \/>\nof the village were glad to see the young prince and the young princess<br \/>\ngrowing up, and they expected that these two would soon marry. Therefore<br \/>\nthe relatives of the prince went and talked with the father of the<br \/>\nprincess, and they also went to the uncles of the princess and talked to them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the relatives of the girl accepted, but the girl rejected<br \/>\nthe proposal and said that she would not marry him; but the young<br \/>\nprince loved her very much, and still she refused him The young<br \/>\nman loved her still more, and he was always true to her. Moreover,<br \/>\nhe was very anxious to speak to her, but the young woman rejected him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the princess wanted to make a fool of her cousin. One day<br \/>\nshe dressed herself up and went to the end of the village to take<br \/>\nsome fresh air. The young man saw her pass by his door, and he went<br \/>\nafter her. Soon he saw her sitting under a large tree, and went<br \/>\nup to her, and the girl was very kind to him. She smiled when she<br \/>\nsaw him coming. Then the young man sat down by her side under the<br \/>\ntree as gently as he could. He asked her if she did not want to<br \/>\nmarry him. The girl said, &quot;If you make a deep cut in your cheek,<br \/>\nthen you may marry me.&quot; Therefore the handsome young man took<br \/>\nhis knife and cut down his right cheek. The girls laughed at him,<br \/>\nand they went home.<\/p>\n<p>When the cheek of the young man was healed, the princess put on<br \/>\nher finest dress, passed the door of her cousin, and the young man<br \/>\nsaw her pass by. He followed her, and saw her sit at the same place<br \/>\nwhere he had met her before.<\/p>\n<p>He went to her; and she stretched out her hands to greet him, put<br \/>\nher arms around him, and kissed him once, since her cousin wanted<br \/>\nto marry her. Then the young man loved her still more because she<br \/>\nhad kissed him the first time ever since he had loved her; and when<br \/>\nthe young man was overflowing with love, she said, &quot;If you<br \/>\nlove me so much, show your love and make a cut down your left cheek;<br \/>\nthen I shall know that you really love me.&quot; The young man did<br \/>\nnot like to do it.<\/p>\n<p>However, he wanted to marry her, and so he took his knife and made<br \/>\na cut down his left cheek. They went home, and the young man was<br \/>\nalways thinking of her.<\/p>\n<p>Soon his wounded cheek was healed. He did not mind his foolish<br \/>\nacts. On the following day he saw her passing his door. The young<br \/>\nman followed her, and she was sitting under the tree. She smiled<br \/>\nat him when he was coming to her, and said, &quot;Do you come to<br \/>\nme again, my beloved one?&quot; and he replied, &quot;Yes, I come<br \/>\nto marry you.&quot; Then he put his arms around her, and she kissed<br \/>\nhim again. He asked her, &quot;Do you love me, my dear cousin?&quot;<br \/>\nand she replied, &quot;Yes, you know how much I love you,&quot;<br \/>\nand the princess asked him, &quot;Do you also love me, cousin?&rsquo;,<br \/>\nand he replied, &quot;Indeed, I love you very much.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Thus said the young man, for he wanted to marry her. Then the princess<br \/>\nsaid to him, &quot;Now, show me your love. Cut off your hair; then<br \/>\nyou may marry me.&quot; So the young prince took his knife and cut<br \/>\noff his beautiful yellow hair. (In those days the young men and<br \/>\nthe old men wore their hair as long as women&rsquo;s hair, and it was<br \/>\nconsidered dishonorable to cut a man&rsquo;s hair as we do it now.)<\/p>\n<p>They went home, and on the following day the young man sent some<br \/>\none to her, saying that he wanted to marry her now. Therefore the<br \/>\nmessenger went to her and told her what her cousin had said; but<br \/>\nthe woman replied, &quot;Tell him that I do not want to marry a<br \/>\nbad-looking person like him, ugly as he is&quot;; and she gave him<br \/>\nthe nickname Mountain With Two Rock Slides, as he had a scar down<br \/>\neach cheek. She laughed at him and scorned him&rsquo; saying, &quot;I<br \/>\ndo not want to marry a man who cut his hair like a <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mythes-et-legendes-slaves-1648\/\">eslavo<\/a>&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>The young man&rsquo;s messengers came back to him and told him what she<br \/>\nhad said. Therefore the youth was very much ashamed. He remembered<br \/>\nthat he also was a prince, and he cried because his own cousin had<br \/>\nmocked him.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he decided to leave his father&rsquo;s house and his uncle&rsquo;s house,<br \/>\nfor he was ashamed before his fellows of the scars which he had<br \/>\nmade on his own cheeks by order of his beloved one. He went about,<br \/>\nnot knowing which way to go. Day by day he went, and he came to<br \/>\na narrow trail. He walked along it, and saw a small hut away off.<br \/>\nHe went toward it. Before it was evening he reached there; and when<br \/>\nhe was near, he walked up to it quietly. He stood outside and looked<br \/>\nthrough a small hole.<\/p>\n<p>Behold! a woman was sitting there by the side of a fireplace. She<br \/>\nsaid, &quot;Come in, dear prince, if it is you who was rejected<br \/>\nby his own cousin!&quot; So the young man went in, and the woman<br \/>\nmade him sit down on the other side of the fire. She gave him to<br \/>\neat. When he started from home, four young men, his own friends,<br \/>\nhad accompanied him on his way; but three of them had gone back<br \/>\nhome, and only one, his dearest friend, followed him all along the<br \/>\nway until they came to the little hut.<\/p>\n<p>After the old woman had given them to eat, she said to the young<br \/>\nman, &quot;Soon you will arrive at the large house of Chief Pestilence,<br \/>\nwhich is just across the little brook yonder. Leave your companion<br \/>\nat this side of the brook, and you yourself go to the large house.<br \/>\nWhen you get there, push open the large door, then say this: &lsquo;I<br \/>\ncome to be made beautiful in the house of Pestilence!&rsquo; Shout this<br \/>\nas loud as you can.<\/p>\n<p>Then you will see that the house on both sides is full of maimed<br \/>\npersons. They will call you to come to their sides; but do not go<br \/>\nthere, because they will make you like one of them. When they stop<br \/>\ncalling you, then Chief Pestilence will call you to the rear of the house.<\/p>\n<p>Follow his calling. He will make you beautiful.&quot; Thus said<br \/>\nthe old woman to him. On the following day, after they had had their<br \/>\nbreakfast, they started. As soon as they crossed the brook, the<br \/>\nprince said to his companion, &quot;Stay here, and I will go on<br \/>\nalone. Wait until I come back to you!&quot; So the companion stayed there.<\/p>\n<p>Now he went on alone. Soon he saw a large house in the distance,<br \/>\nand went as quickly as he could. He pushed open the door, ran in,<br \/>\nand shouted at the top of his voice, &quot;I came to be made beautiful,<br \/>\nChief Pestilence!&quot; Then all the maimed people on both sides<br \/>\nof the house beckoned to him and shouted. Those on one side would<br \/>\nsay, &quot;Come this way, come this way!&quot; and those on the<br \/>\nother side said, &quot;Come, come, come!&quot; The prince remained<br \/>\nstanding in the doorway. There were many good-looking women among<br \/>\nthese maimed persons. They shouted and called him; but he stood<br \/>\nstill, waiting until Chief Pestilence should come forth from his<br \/>\nroom in the rear of the large house.<\/p>\n<p>Soon the noise of the maimed people ceased. Then the door of the<br \/>\nchief&rsquo;s room was opened, and, behold! Chief Pestilence came forth<br \/>\nwith his beautiful daughter. He said, &quot;Dear prince, come this<br \/>\nway!&quot; Then the young man went to him and sat down on his right side.<\/p>\n<p>Then Chief Pestilence ordered his attendants to bring his bathtub.<br \/>\nThey brought him a large tub full of hot water. Then the chief took<br \/>\nthe young man, put him into this tub, and, as soon as he was in<br \/>\nthe tub, the water began to boil and the water boiled over the tub,<br \/>\nboiling of its own accord. When the dross was all off, the chief<br \/>\ntook the bare bones of the young man, put them on a wide board,<br \/>\njoining them together, and after he had done so, he called to his<br \/>\nyoung daughter, who leaped over the bones. Then the young man was<br \/>\nalive again. His features were changed, and his body was as white as snow.<\/p>\n<p>Then the chief said, &quot;Bring me a nice comb!&quot; and his<br \/>\nattendants brought him a comb of crystal. The chief took it and<br \/>\ncombed the prince&rsquo;s hair down to his loins. His hair was red, like<br \/>\ntongues of fire. He was the most beautiful of all.<\/p>\n<p>The chief did not want to let him go at once, but kept him in his<br \/>\nhouse for two days. The young man thought he had been there two<br \/>\ndays, but in reality two years had passed. Then the young man remembered<br \/>\nhis friend whom he had left by the brook before he entered the house<br \/>\nof Chief Pestilence. Now, the prince told the young woman that he<br \/>\nloved his friend by the brook; therefore the young woman said, &quot;Let<br \/>\nus go to see him!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>They went together; and when they came to the place, they found<br \/>\nthe man&rsquo;s bare bones heaped up there. Therefore the young prince<br \/>\nwept, but the young woman commanded him to take the bare bones to<br \/>\nher father&rsquo;s house. The young man did what the young woman had told<br \/>\nhim, and took the bare bones to the chief. The chief ordered his<br \/>\nattendants to bring his bathtub.<\/p>\n<p>They brought it to him, and he put the bare bones into the tub.<br \/>\nThen the water began to boil, and the dross of the bare bones boiled<br \/>\nover the tub. Thus the young man saw what the Chief Pestilence had done to him.<\/p>\n<p>Then the chief took out the bones and placed them on a wide board<br \/>\nand joined them together; and the young woman leaped over them four<br \/>\ntimes, and the young man was alive again.<\/p>\n<p>Next the chief asked for his own comb. They brought it to him,<br \/>\nand the chief asked what color of hair he wanted. The man said,<br \/>\n&quot;Dark-yellow hair.&quot; He also asked him how long he wanted<br \/>\nit; and the man said, &quot;Right down to the knee.&quot; So the<br \/>\nchief combed his hair down to his knees; and this man was lighter<br \/>\ncolor than the other. Now they started for home. It was not many<br \/>\ndays before they arrived at their home. The prince looked like a<br \/>\nsupernatural being, and his friend too was handsomer than any of<br \/>\nthe other people. They came and visited them; and all the people<br \/>\ntalked about these two men who had just come back from the house<br \/>\nof Chief Pestilence, who had transformed them and given them great beauty.<\/p>\n<p>The young people coveted their beauty, and they questioned them<br \/>\none day to know how far the house of Chief Pestilence was from their<br \/>\nvillage. Then the prince&rsquo;s friend told them that it was not very far away.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let us go back to the princess who years ago had refused to<br \/>\nmarry her own cousin. She was very anxious to see her cousin who<br \/>\nhad just come home from the house of Chief Pestilence. People were<br \/>\ntalking about it, that he was more beautiful than any other person<br \/>\nin the village; and she heard the people say that he looked like<br \/>\na supernatural being. Therefore the young woman tried hard to see<br \/>\nhim. One day the chief, the father of the princess, invited his<br \/>\nnephew to his house.<\/p>\n<p>The prince went with some of the chief&rsquo;s head men; and as soon<br \/>\nas the prince entered his uncle&rsquo;s house, the young princess looked<br \/>\nat him. Oh, how fine he looked! and more beautiful than any of the<br \/>\npeople. Then she tried to make her rejected cousin turn and look<br \/>\nat her, but the young man took no notice of her courting. His hair<br \/>\nwas like fire, and his face shone like the rays of the sun.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the young woman came down from her room, and walked to and<br \/>\nfro behind the guests, laughing and talking, trying to make the<br \/>\nbeautiful prince look at her; but he took no notice of her. As soon<br \/>\nas the feasting was over, he arose and went home, and the young<br \/>\nprincess felt full of sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The following day she sent her maid to call the beautiful prince.<br \/>\nWhen the girl came to him and told him what her mistress had said<br \/>\nto the prince, he did not answer a word, and the maid went back<br \/>\nto her mistress and told her that the prince would not answer her a word.<\/p>\n<p>She sent to him again; and when the girl came to him, she told<br \/>\nhim that her mistress wanted him to come and see her. But he said<br \/>\nto the girl, &quot;Go and tell her that she rejected me then, so<br \/>\nI will not go to her now.&quot; Then the girl went and told her<br \/>\nmistress what the prince had said.<\/p>\n<p>The princess sent her girl again. &quot;Go and tell him that I<br \/>\nwill do whatever he desires me to do.&quot; She went and told him<br \/>\nwhat her mistress had said: &quot;My mistress says that whatever<br \/>\nyou desire her to do she will do.&quot; Then the prince said to<br \/>\nthe girl, &quot;Go and tell her that I desire her to cut down her<br \/>\nright cheek, and I will come and be her guest.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore the girl went and told her mistress what the prince had<br \/>\nsaid. So the princess took her knife and cut down her right cheek.<br \/>\nShe said to her maid, &quot;Go and tell him that I will do whatever<br \/>\nhe wants me to do.&quot; She went and told the prince what her mistress had done.<\/p>\n<p>Again the beautiful prince said, &quot;Just tell her to cut down<br \/>\nher other cheek, and then I will come and see her.&quot; So she<br \/>\nwent and told her mistress, and thereupon the princess cut her left<br \/>\ncheek. Again she sent her maid, who went to him and told him. This<br \/>\ntime he said, &quot;Let her cut her hair, then I will go to her.&quot;<br \/>\nShe went and told her, and the princess took her knife and shaved<br \/>\noff her hair, and she sent her hair to him.<\/p>\n<p>The maid took it to the prince; but when the prince saw the hair,<br \/>\nhe refused to accept it. &quot;Don&rsquo;t bring it near me! It is too<br \/>\nnasty! Take it back to your mistress and tell her that I don&rsquo;t want<br \/>\nto see the ugly scars on her cheeks and her ugly shaved hair. It<br \/>\nis too nasty for me.&quot; Then he left, and laughed louder and<br \/>\nlouder, mocking her; and the girl returned to her mistress very sad.<\/p>\n<p>She came slowly; and her mistress asked her, &quot;My dear, what<br \/>\ntidings do you bring?&quot; Then she told her mistress how scornfully<br \/>\nhe had spoken of the ugly scars on her cheeks, and of her shaving<br \/>\nher hair, and that everybody had been laughing at her, and that<br \/>\nevery one had heard him mocking her. Then the young princess was<br \/>\nvery much ashamed. She set out with her maid, and walked along crying.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to hang herself, but her maid talked to her and comforted<br \/>\nher all the way. They went on and on, trying to go to the house<br \/>\nof Chief Pestilence. Her heart took courage, for she hoped to get<br \/>\nthere and ask Chief Pestilence to make her beautiful. They went<br \/>\non and on, and passed many mountains and rivers and valleys, and<br \/>\nreached the edge of a large plain. There they met a man, who asked<br \/>\nthem which way they intended to go; and the princess told him that<br \/>\nthey intended to go to the house of Chief Pestilence. She passed<br \/>\nby him, and did not look at him, for she was ashamed to let any one look at her.<\/p>\n<p>Soon they saw a large house in the distance. They went toward it;<br \/>\nand when they reached the door, they went right in and shouted as<br \/>\nthey stood in the doorway, &quot;We come to the house of Chief Pestilence<br \/>\nto be made beautiful!&quot; Then all the maimed people on both sides<br \/>\nof the house called to them, &quot;Come, come, come!&quot; and those<br \/>\non the other side shouted, &quot;This way, this way, this way!&quot;<br \/>\nand the princess went to those who called her to come; and the other<br \/>\none went too those who shouted &quot;This way!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Then the maimed people fell on the princess, broke her backbone,<br \/>\nand made her lame. They turned her head to one side, and broke one<br \/>\nof her arms; and those on the other side plucked out one of the<br \/>\neyes of her maid, tore up one side of her mouth, and scratched the<br \/>\ntwo women all over their bodies, and then threw them outside. There<br \/>\nthey lay wounded, and nobody came to help them. The princess was<br \/>\nmore severely injured than her maid.<\/p>\n<p>When the maid felt a little better, she saw her mistress lying<br \/>\nthere with wounds all over her body. She went too her, and saw how<br \/>\nshe was bruised. They were both in great distress, and the princess<br \/>\nwas groaning. So her maid helped her up and led her home. They spent<br \/>\nmany days coming down, and finally arrived at their home. Then she<br \/>\nlay in bed, and finally died.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haida-Tlingit-Tsimshian Mitolog\u00eda Wiki Los Tsimshian (Sm&#039;algyax: Ts&#039;msyan) son un pueblo ind\u00edgena de Am\u00e9rica del Norte. 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