Thrown-behind-the-Curtain

Thrown-behind-the-Curtain is the domesticated twin of the Crow version of the Plains 'Lodge Boy and Thrown Away' cycle. After Red Woman kills their pregnant mother, this child is flung behind the tipi lining and reared by his father, while his brother grows up wild in a spring. Reunited, the twins revive their mother and undertake a series of monster-slaying exploits, including the destruction of Red Woman herself.

Domains

• heroic vengeance

Powers

• to restore his slain mother to life together with his twin
• to overcome the ogres and monsters of the early world

Relations

• twin sibling: Thrown-into-the-Spring
• slayer of: Red Woman

Sources

• Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 25(1), 1918
• Stith Thompson, Tales of the North American Indians, Harvard University Press, 1929