Falcon
Falcon, called tciya, a species of hawk, in Barrett's early Pomo texts (Barrett 1906), is the venturesome young hero of the Pomo bird-people myths. In Barrett's collection Condor tells Falcon that Coyote is 'your grandfather, the biggest and wisest man in the world,' and Coyote thereafter answers all of Falcon's questions and makes for him whatever he desires as the young hero travels everywhere (Barrett 1933, pp. 589–590). In the Clear Lake area tradition recorded by Jaime de Angulo and L. S. Freeland, Coyote comes from the west followed by Chicken Hawk, his grandson, before making people (de Angulo and Freeland 1928). Barrett's composite myth of 1906, in which the hawk tciya figures, also recounts how the people recovered the stolen sun and hung it in the sky.
Parentage
Domains
- heroic quests
Powers
- to venture everywhere into distant and dangerous places and prevail
Sources
- Barrett, S. A. (1933). Pomo Myths. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 15. Milwaukee: Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee.
- de Angulo, Jaime, and L. S. Freeland (1928). 'Miwok and Pomo Myths.' Journal of American Folk-Lore 41(160): 232–252.
- Barrett, S. A. (1906). 'A Composite Myth of the Pomo Indians.' Journal of American Folk-Lore 19(72): 37–51.