510 MYTHS OK THK CHEROKEE (eth.ann.19 



Ani'-Wa''ya — "Wolf people"; tlic uio.st important of the seven Cherokee clans. 



Ani'-Yn'ti^l — the Yuchi or Uchee Indians; singular Yu'lul. 



Ani'-Yun'wiya' — Indians, partirnlarly Cherokee Indians; literally "principal or real 

 people," from ynnul, person, ;/("(, a snilix implying i)rincipal or real, and anV, 

 the tribal prefix. See pages 5 and isi'. 



Annie Ax — see SiukiyV. 



Aquone — a post-office on Xantahala river, in Macon county, North Carolina, site of 

 the former Fort Scott. Probably a curruption of cgii-iin'i, river. 



Aech, John — see Atsi. 



asa'gvvSlihiV — a pack or burden; nKd'ijiCittKt', or asd'gw'itt', "there is a pack on him." 

 CiKd'niniir. 



as(?hl' — surely. 



Ase'nikil — singular i:)f Am'-Sr'vikd. See Aiii'-Ntmdtiv;e'gi. 



asga'ya — man. 



Asga'ya Gi'gagel — the "Red Man"; the Lightning spirit. 



asgi'na — a ghost, either human or animal; from the fact that ghosts are commonly 

 supposed to be malevolent, the name is frequently rendered "devil." 



AsHEViLLE — see K(isdti'i/1 and Lmld'hitjaati'iii. 



Asl — the sweat lodge and occasional winter sleeping apartment of the Cherokee and 

 other southern tribes. It was a Inw-ljuilt structure of logs covered with earth, 

 and from its closeness and the fire usually kept smoldering within was known to 

 the old traders as the "hot house." 



A'siyu' (abbreviated siyn') — good; the connnon Cherokee salute; gd'siyu', "1 am 

 good"; hd'siyy', "thou art good"; d'aiyu, "he (it) is good"; dslii, "very good" 

 (intensive). 



Askwa'nl — a Spaniard. See Ani'shva'iit. 



dstu' — very good; dsh'i UlkV, very good, best of all. Cf d'siyu'. 



Astu'gatii'ga — A Cherokee lieutenant in the Confederate service, killed in 1862. See 

 page 170. The name may be rendered, "Standing in the doorway" but implies 

 that the man himself is the door or shutter; it has no first person; gatd'ga, "he 

 is standing"; stutl, a door or shutter; xliihii', a closed door or passage; stugi'sU, 

 a key, i. e. something with which to open a door. 



asuii'tll, asuiitlun'yl — a footlog or bridge; literally, "log lying across," from asi'ta, 

 log. 



ata' — wood; ala'yd, "principal wood," i. e. oak; cf. Muscogee iVi, wood. 



Ataga'lii — "Gall place," from Ci'IdgiV, gall, and h'l, locative; a mythic lake in the 

 Great Smoky mountains. See number 69. The name is also applied to that 

 part of the Gireat Smoky range centering about Thunderhead mountain and 

 ^liry ridge, near the boundary between Swain county, Xoi'th Carolina, and 

 Blount county, Tennessee. 



a'tagu'— gall. 



Ata'-giU'kalii' — a noted Cherokee chief, recognized by the British government as 

 the head chief or "emperor" of the Nation, about 1760 and later, and commonly 

 known to the whites as the Little Carpenter (Little Cornplanter, by mistake, 

 in Haywood). The name is frequently .spelled Atta-kulla-kulla, Ata-kullakulla 

 or Ata-culculla. It may be rendered "Leaning-wood," from tWi', "wood" and 

 gutkdlu a verb implying that something long is leaning, without sufficient 

 support, against some other object; it lias no first person form. Bartram 

 describes him as "a man of remai'kaljly small stature, slender and of a delicate 

 frame, the only instance I saw in the Nation; but he is a man of superior 

 abilities. ' ' 



Ata'gwa — a Catawba Indian. See Ani'ta'gwd. 



A'tdhi'ta — abbreviated from A'tdhiliin'i/I, "Place wliere they shouted," from 

 giitd'hiu', "I shout," and y1, locative. Waya gap, on the ridge west of Franklin, 



