Category: Seneca Mythology

KANENHAGENAT Seneca White CORN, which was given to the Seneca by a beautiful woman. The woman stood on a cliff overlooking a village and sang…

HADENTHENI AND HANIGONGENDATHA Seneca WARRIOR TWINS and CULTURE HEROES who were shunned by their people because they did not know who their parents were. In…

Beans, Corn, and Squash, pioneered by the Indians of central Mexico, were called “The Three Sisters” by many tribes in the Northeast. A narrative in…

Deohako In North American Indian mythology (Seneca), three sisters, spirits of corn, beans, and squash. They all lived on one hill. One day Onatah, the…