Thrown-behind-the-Curtain
Crow · demigod · creation time · Recorded classification
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-SpringThe two boys are twins separated at birth by Red Woman and reunited when the lodge twin lures his wild brother from the spring.Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians, 1918 (secondary)
- slayer of: Red WomanWith his twin he avenges their mother by destroying the ogress Red Woman.Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians, 1918 (secondary)
Sources
- Thrown-behind-the-Curtain is one of the twin heroes of the Crow 'Lodge Boy and Thrown Away' cycle who avenge their mother's murder by Red Woman.: Robert H. Lowie, Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 25(1), 1918 (secondary); Stith Thompson, Tales of the North American Indians, Harvard University Press, 1929 (secondary)