![]() In most versions, the monster Caddaja kills a pregnant woman while her husband is hunting. Village Boy and Wild Boy are young heroes from the Caddo Nation. Possible representation of Hero Twins on an engraved shell gorget from Spiro Mounds, Oklahoma Caddo Keri and Kame are the creator gods in Bakairi legend, adapting the world for humans to live on as well as teaching them to use fire and how to hunt. He is even shown as helping Quetzalcoatl returning the bones of the humans to the land of the living to bring them back to life. They are also depicted as having another brother, Xolotl. They are also seen as allies however, as both are considered protectors of Earth. They are often seen in competition with each other, like when the two fought over who would become the sun. Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca are culture heroes and creator deities of the Aztecs and are said to be brothers. ![]() When their mother is killed, his father took Drinks Brains from her womb and sustained him on a broth made from deer brains in place of mother's milk. ![]() His twin brother Long Teeth was magically generated from the afterbirth and grew up in the wilderness. In some versions of that tradition, one is a trickster rather than a villain, and the brothers' relationship is one of rivalry rather than enmity.ĭrinks Brains is an Arikara hero, one of a pair of magical twins. ![]() In other traditions, the Twin Gods are not considered good or evil but instead represent day and night, summer and winter, and life and death. In the end, though, the Twin Gods fight each other, and the good brother prevails. The two brothers coexisted for a while, each making their own changes to the world. In some versions of this myth, the evil twin manipulates others into blaming his good brother for his misdeeds. In some traditions, the twins personified good and evil: one twin is good while the other is evil, but in others both are benevolent heroes. The Twin Heroes share many similarities in the mythology of different tribes, but are different in their relationships with other mythological figures, their associations with stars or animal spirits, and the nature of the particular adventures they go on. Eventually they become reunited and avenge the death of their mother. Various versions have their mother's killer leaving one where he could be easily be found by his family and the other deep in the wilderness so that one boy grew up civilized and the other wild. Sometimes, the twins are separated at birth. Twins were considered unnatural in many cultures of this region, with beliefs about them having supernatural abilities. The specifics of each myth vary from tribe to tribe, but each story has a pair of twins (usually with magical powers) who were born when their pregnant mother was killed by the tale's antagonist. The Hero Twins (or God Boys) are recurring characters from the mythologies of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Redrawn from an engraved whelk shell by artist Herb Roe. Mississippian Hero Twins emerging from a crack in the back of a raccoon-faced Horned Serpent.
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