{"id":22012,"date":"2022-08-03T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T23:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=22012"},"modified":"2022-08-03T23:57:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T23:57:27","slug":"conte-cheyenne-arrow-boy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/cheyenne-arapaho-mitologia\/cuento-cheyenne-arrow-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuento de Cheyenne: Arrow Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/cheyenne-arapaho-mitologia\/\" role=\"button\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tMitolog\u00eda Cheyenne-Arapaho<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpeople.us\/FP-Html-Legends\/ArrowBoy-Cheyenne.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><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/cheyenne-arapaho-mitologia\/\">Cheyennes<\/a><\/strong> son una naci\u00f3n nativa americana de las Grandes Llanuras, aliados cercanos de los <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/cheyenne-arapaho-mitologia\/\">Arapahos<\/a> y generalmente aliados de los Lakotas (<a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mythes-et-legendes-siouans-2127\/\">siux<\/a>). Son una de las tribus de las Llanuras m\u00e1s famosas e importantes. Aqu\u00ed est\u00e1 su historia: Arrow Boy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/cropped-AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Chico flecha\" 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\/cheyenne-arapaho-mitologia\/cuento-cheyenne-arrow-boy\/#Arrow-Boy\" >Chico flecha<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Arrow-Boy\"><\/span>Chico flecha<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Arrow Boy, the wonderful boy, gives a magic performance still enacted<br \/>\nduring Sioux Yuwipi ceremonies, in which the medicine man is tied<br \/>\nup with a rawhide thong and covered with a star blanket (formerly<br \/>\na buffalo robe) while eerie lights flicker and invisible rattles<br \/>\nand strange voices are heard.<\/p>\n<p>la alfarer\u00eda <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/mitologia-de-los-pueblos\/\">Pueblos<\/a> have another version of this tale that<br \/>\nthey call the legend of the Water-Olla Boy.<\/p>\n<p>After the Cheyenne had received their corn, and while they were<br \/>\nstill in the North, a young man and woman of the tribe were married.<\/p>\n<p>The woman became pregnant and carried her child in the womb for<br \/>\nfour years. The people watched with great interest to see what would<br \/>\nhappen, and when the woman gave birth to a beautiful boy in the<br \/>\nfourth year, they regarded him as supernatural. Before long the<br \/>\nwoman and her husband died, and the boy was taken in by his grandmother,<br \/>\nwho lived alone.<\/p>\n<p>He learned to walk and talk very quickly. He was given a buffalo<br \/>\ncalf robe and immediately turned it inside out so that the hair<br \/>\nside was outward, the way medicine men wore it.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Cheyenne there were certain medicine men of extraordinary<br \/>\nwisdom and supernatural powers. Sometimes they would come together<br \/>\nand put up a lodge. Sitting in a large circle, they chanted and<br \/>\nwent through curious rituals, after which each man rose and performed<br \/>\nwonders before the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>One of these magic dances were held when the boy was about ten.<br \/>\nHe made his grandmother ask if he could take part, and the medicine<br \/>\nmen let him enter the lodge.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Where do you want to live?&quot; the chief of the medicine<br \/>\nmen asked, meaning &quot;Where do you want to sit?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Without ceremony the boy took his seat beside the chief. To the<br \/>\nman who had ushered him in, the child gave directions to paint his<br \/>\nbody red and draw black rings around his face, wrists, and ankles.<\/p>\n<p>The performance began at one end of the circle. When the boy&rsquo;s<br \/>\nturn came, he told the people what he was going to do. He used sweet<br \/>\ngrass to burn incense. Then he passed his buffalo sinew bowstring<br \/>\nEast, South, West, and North through the smoke. He asked two men<br \/>\nto assist him and told them to tie his bowstring around his neck,<br \/>\ncover his body with his robe, and pull at the ends of the string.<\/p>\n<p>They pulled with all their might, but they could not move him.<br \/>\nHe told them to pull harder, and as they tugged at the string, his<br \/>\nhead was severed. It rolled out from under the robe, and the men put it back.<\/p>\n<p>Next the men lifted the robe up. Instead of the boy, a very old<br \/>\nman was sitting in his place.<\/p>\n<p>They covered the old man with the robe and pulled it away again,<br \/>\nthis time revealing a pile of human bones with a skull.<\/p>\n<p>A third time they placed the robe over the bones and lifted it.<br \/>\nNothing at all was there.<\/p>\n<p>But when for a fourth time they spread the robe over the empty<br \/>\nspace and removed it, the wonderful boy sat in his place as if nothing had happened.<\/p>\n<p>After the magic dance, the Cheyenne moved their camp to hunt buffalo.<br \/>\nWhen a kill had been made, the wonderful boy led a crowd of boys<br \/>\nwho went hunting for calves that might return to the place where<br \/>\nthey last saw their mothers. The boys found five or six calves,<br \/>\nsurrounded them, and killed a two-year-old with their arrows.<\/p>\n<p>They began to skin it very carefully with bone knives, keeping<br \/>\nthe hide of the head intact and leaving the hooves on, because the<br \/>\nwonderful boy wanted the skin for a robe.<\/p>\n<p>While they worked, a man driving a dog team approached them. It<br \/>\nwas Young Wolf, head chief of the tribe, who had come to the killing<br \/>\nground to gather what bones had been left.<\/p>\n<p>He said, &quot;My children have favored me at last! I&rsquo;ll take charge<br \/>\nof this buffalo; you boys go on off.&quot; The children obeyed,<br \/>\nexcept for the wonderful boy, who kept skinning as he explained<br \/>\nthat he wanted only the hide for a robe. The chief pushed the wonderful<br \/>\nboy aside, but the boy returned and resumed skinning.<\/p>\n<p>Then the chief jerked the boy away and threw him down. The boy<br \/>\ngot up and continued his work. Pretending that he was skinning one<br \/>\nof the hind legs, he cut the leg off at the knee and left the hoof on.<\/p>\n<p>When the chief shouldered the boy out of the way and took over<br \/>\nthe work, the wonderful boy struck him on the back of the head with<br \/>\nthe buffalo leg.<\/p>\n<p>The chief fell dead. The boys ran to the camp and told the story,<br \/>\nwhich caused great excitement. The warriors assembled and decided<br \/>\nto kill the wonderful boy.<\/p>\n<p>They went out to look for him near the body of their chief, but<br \/>\nthe boy had returned to camp. He was sitting in his grandmother&rsquo;s<br \/>\nlodge while she cooked food for him in an earthen pot, when suddenly<br \/>\nthe whole tipi was raised by the warriors.<\/p>\n<p>Quickly the wonderful boy kicked the pot over, sending the contents<br \/>\ninto the fire. As the smoke billowed up, the boy rose with it. The<br \/>\nold woman was left sitting alone.<\/p>\n<p>The warriors looked around and saw the boy about a quarter of a<br \/>\nmile away, walking off towards the East. They ran after him but<br \/>\ncould not seem to draw closer. Four times they chased him with no<br \/>\nsuccess, and then gave up.<\/p>\n<p>People became afraid of the wonderful boy. Still, they looked for<br \/>\nhim everyday and at last saw him on top of a nearby hill. The whole<br \/>\ncamp gathered to watch as he appeared on the summit five times,<br \/>\neach time in a different dress.<\/p>\n<p>First he came as a Red Shield warrior in a headdress made out of<br \/>\nbuffalo skin. He had horns, a spear, a red shield. and two buffalo<br \/>\ntails tied to each arm.<\/p>\n<p>The second time he was a Coyote warrior, with his body painted<br \/>\nblack and yellow and with two eagle feathers sticking up on his head.<\/p>\n<p>The third time he appeared as a Dog Men warrior wearing a feathered<br \/>\nheaddress and carrying an eagle-bone whistle, a rattle of buffalo<br \/>\nhoof, and a bow and arrows.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth time he was a Hoof Rattle warrior. His body was painted,<br \/>\nand he had a rattle to sing by and a spear about eight feet long,<br \/>\nwith a crook at one end and the shaft at the other end bent in a semi-circle.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth time his body was painted white, and on his forehead<br \/>\nhe wore a white owl skin.<\/p>\n<p>After this the wonderful boy disappeared entirely. No one knew<br \/>\nwhere he went, people thought him dead, and he was soon forgotten,<br \/>\nfor the buffalo disappeared and famine came to the Cheyenne.<\/p>\n<p>During this time the wonderful boy traveled alone into the highest<br \/>\nranges of the mountains. As he drew near a certain peak, a door<br \/>\nopened in the mountain slope.<\/p>\n<p>Might this also be the reference made by the Sioux as to where<br \/>\nthe buffalo disappeared when they &quot;went inside a mountain&quot;?<\/p>\n<p>Note that almost ALL tribes have legends of a mountain or mountains<br \/>\nwith a &quot;door&quot; in it &#8211; that leads to other places. It,<br \/>\nand some of the connecting tunnels &#8211; some of which are literally<br \/>\nhundreds of miles long, extend underground to various places all<br \/>\nover South America, and may also be the place to which Moctezuma<br \/>\nalluded, when he told his people to take the remaining gold to other<br \/>\nlands by going &quot;inside the mountains&quot;, after the Spanish<br \/>\nbroke their promises, and then later killed him,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They never did solve the mystery though, of where such enormously<br \/>\nhuge quantities of gold disappeared to in such a short time!!!).<\/p>\n<p>He passed through into the Earth, and the opening closed after<br \/>\nhim. There inside the mountain he found a large circle of men. Each<br \/>\nrepresented a tribe and was seated beneath that tribe&rsquo;s bundle.<\/p>\n<p>They welcomed the wonderful boy and pointed out the one empty place<br \/>\nunder a bundle wrapped in fox skin.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;If you take this seat, the bundle will be yours to carry<br \/>\nback to the Cheyenne,&quot; the head man said. &quot;But first you<br \/>\nwill remain here four years, receiving instruction in order to become<br \/>\nyour tribe&rsquo;s prophet and counselor.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The wonderful boy accepted the bundle, and all the men gave thanks.<br \/>\nWhen his turn came to perform the bundle ceremony, they took it<br \/>\ndown and showed him its sacred ceremonies, songs, and four medicine<br \/>\narrows, each representing certain powers.<\/p>\n<p>Then for four years under the mountain peak, they taught him prophecies,<br \/>\nmagic, and ceremonies for warfare and hunting.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Cheyenne were weak with hunger, threatened by starvation.<br \/>\nAll the animals had died, and the people ate herbs.<\/p>\n<p>One day as the tribe was traveling in search of food, five children<br \/>\nlagged behind to look for herbs and mushrooms. Suddenly the wonderful<br \/>\nboy, now a young man bearing the name of Arrow Boy, appeared before them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My poor children, throw away those mushrooms,&quot; he said.<br \/>\n&quot;It is I who brought famine among you, for I was angry with<br \/>\nyour people when they drove me from their camp. I have returned<br \/>\nto provide for you; you shall not hunger in the future. Go and gather<br \/>\nsome dried buffalo bones, and I will feed you.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The children ran away and picked up buffalo bones, and the wonderful<br \/>\nboy, Arrow Boy, made a few passes that turned them into fresh meat.<br \/>\nHe fed the children with fat, marrow, liver, and other strengthening<br \/>\nparts of the buffalo. When they had eaten all they wanted, he gave<br \/>\nthem fat and meat.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Take this to your people,&quot; he said. &quot;Tell them<br \/>\nthat I, Motzeyouf, Arrow Boy, have returned.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Though the boys ran to the camp, Motzeyouf used magic to reach<br \/>\nit first. He entered the lodge of his uncle and lay down to rest,<br \/>\nfor he was tired. The uncle and his wife were sitting just outside,<br \/>\nbut they did not see Arrow Boy pass by.<\/p>\n<p>The boys arrived in camp with their tale, which created great excitement.<br \/>\nThe uncle&rsquo;s wife went into the lodge to get a pipe, and it was then<br \/>\nthat she saw Arrow Boy lying covered with a buffalo robe. The robe,<br \/>\nand his shirt, leggings, and his moccasins, all were painted red.<br \/>\nGuessing that he was Motzeyouf, the men went into the lodge, asked<br \/>\nthe stranger to sit up, and cried over him.<\/p>\n<p>They saw his bundle, and knowing that he had power, they asked<br \/>\nhim what they should do. Motzeyouf told the Cheyenne to camp in<br \/>\na circle and set up a large tipi in the center.<\/p>\n<p>When this had been done, he called all the medicine men to bring<br \/>\ntheir rattles and pipes. Then he went into the tipi and sang the<br \/>\nsacred songs that he had learned. It was night before he came to<br \/>\nthe song about the fourth arrow.<\/p>\n<p>In the darkness the buffalo returned with a roar like thunder.<br \/>\nThe frightened Cheyenne went in to Arrow Boy and asked him what<br \/>\nto do. &quot;Go and sleep,&quot; he said, &quot;for the buffalo,<br \/>\nyour food, has returned to you.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The roar of the buffalo continued through the night as long as<br \/>\nhe sang. The next morning the land was covered with buffalo, and<br \/>\nthe people went out and killed all they wanted. From that time forth,<br \/>\nowing to the medicine arrows, the Cheyenne had plenty to eat and<br \/>\ngreat powers.<\/p>\n<p>Nota:<br \/>\nThe medicine arrows brought down from the mountains by Motzeyouf<br \/>\nstill exist and are cared for by the Arrow Keeper of the Southern<br \/>\nCheyenne in Oklahoma.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheyenne-Arapaho Mythology Wiki Los Cheyennes son una naci\u00f3n nativa americana de las Grandes Llanuras, aliados cercanos de los Arapahos y en general aliados de los Lakotas... <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3895,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22012","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22018,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22012\/revisions\/22018"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}