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Haudenosaunee Tradition

Haudenosaunee (Six Nations / Iroquois Confederacy: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora)

Name Date

1. Who's who

Write the letter of each figure's role next to their name.

  1. 1.Sky Woman
  2. 2.Flint
  3. 3.Hinon the Thunderer
  4. 4.Sapling
  5. 5.Sky Woman's Daughter
  6. 6.Earth Holder
  7. 7.Ga'ha' the Zephyr
  8. 8.Great Turtle
  • A.the Sky World, the celestial tree
  • B.the gentle wind, ripening, the warm season
  • C.hard and difficult things, winter, obstacles
  • D.the earth, endurance, the created world
  • E.creation, growth, the useful and the good
  • F.thunder, rain, protection from underwater monsters
  • G.birth, the food plants, the moon (in some tellings)
  • H.creation, the sky world, the earth

2. Family and relationships

Fill in each blank with a name from the word bank.

Word bank: Earth Holder · Ga'ha' the Zephyr · Sapling · Sky Woman · Sky Woman's Daughter

  1. 1. is the spouse of Sky Woman.
  2. 2. is the spouse of Sky Woman's Daughter.
  3. 3. is a parent of Flint.
  4. 4. is a sibling of Flint.
  5. 5. is a parent of Sapling.
  6. 6. is a parent of Sky Woman's Daughter.

3. Short answers

  1. 1. What was Sky Woman associated with, and which symbols help you recognise Sky Woman?

  2. 2. What was Flint associated with, and which symbols help you recognise Flint?

  3. 3. Retell “Sky Woman and the Making of Turtle Island” in two or three sentences. Who is involved, and what changes by the end?

  4. 4. Retell “The Twins: Sapling and Flint” in two or three sentences. Who is involved, and what changes by the end?

Answer key: Haudenosaunee Tradition

1. Who's who

  1. 1. Sky Woman: H
  2. 2. Flint: C
  3. 3. Hinon the Thunderer: F
  4. 4. Sapling: E
  5. 5. Sky Woman's Daughter: G
  6. 6. Earth Holder: A
  7. 7. Ga'ha' the Zephyr: B
  8. 8. Great Turtle: D

2. Family and relationships

  1. 1. Earth Holder
  2. 2. Ga'ha' the Zephyr
  3. 3. Sky Woman's Daughter
  4. 4. Sapling
  5. 5. Sky Woman's Daughter
  6. 6. Sky Woman

3. Short answers (guidance)

  1. 1. creation, the sky world, the earth. Symbols: the Great Turtle, the celestial tree. (mythosatlas.com/deities/sky-woman)
  2. 2. hard and difficult things, winter, obstacles. Symbols: flint. (mythosatlas.com/deities/flint)
  3. 3. A woman falls from a torn-open hole in the Sky World, is caught by waterfowl, and set on the back of the Great Turtle, whose back the diving animals build into Turtle Island. (mythosatlas.com/stories/sky-woman-and-turtle-island)
  4. 4. Sky Woman's grandsons, the good-minded Sapling and the hard-minded Flint, shape the young earth's features in opposite directions, one toward ease and abundance, the other toward difficulty. (mythosatlas.com/stories/the-twins-sapling-and-flint)

Generated from the Mythos Atlas catalog. Traditions vary between sources; accept well-supported alternatives.