Case file · High strangeness

Tsukilunnun'yi, 'where he alighted'

Two bald spots at the head of Little Snowbird Creek in Graham County mark where a giant with a head blazing like the sun flew through the air, landed, looked over the land and flew off, leaving the grass burned.

1900 CE · 35.27, -83.93 · status: legend

The account

Mooney's informants did not know who it was; some thought it might have been the Sun.

Sources

  1. Mooney, Myths of the Cherokee (1900), Project Gutenberg
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