518 _ MYTHS (IF 'I'HK CHERDKKK |Kni.A.\N.r9 



Etilwa'hil-tsistatla'skl — "Deadwoml-lightcr," a traditional Cherokee (•onjurer. .See 



number 100. 

 c'tl, or etl — old, long ago. 

 Eto w A H — see I'l&wti'. 

 EtsaiyI' — see VntsmyV. 



etsi' — my mother (Upper (Ualert); the Middle and I^ower dialect form in ar/ifaV. 

 EuHARLEE — see Ynhd'lt. 



Feather DA^■CE — see Tmg'uKi'lt, Uhgi'sU. 

 Fighting-town — see WaUs'-um'ihti'ijI. 

 Flax-toter— see Tdle'danirji'skl. 

 Flying-squirrel — see Kd'lahA'. 

 French Broad — see XJyila'kiyadi'yt. 

 Frogtown — see Waldsi'yl. 



Gadalu'lu — the proper name of the mountain known to the whites as Yonali (from 

 ydnd, "bear"), or upper Chattahoochee river, in White county, Georgia. The 

 name has no connection with Tallnlah (see Taliilu'), and can not be translated. 



Gadalu'tst — in the corrupted form of Cataliichee this appears on the map as the name 

 of a peak, or rather a ridge, on the line between Swain and Haywood counties, 

 in North Carolina, and of a creek running down on the Haywood side into Big 

 Pigeon river. It is properly tlie name of the ridge only and seems to refer to a 

 " fringe standing erect," apparently from the appearance of the timber growing 

 in streaks along the side of the mountain; from tcadalu'ydtd, fringe, gndn'tO., 

 "standing up in a row or series." 



gahawl'sita — iiarched corn; improperly spelled V-'issaclaiv by Hawkins. See note 

 under number 8.3. 



Gahutl (GaliiYld and Gwahu'tl in dialectic forms) — Cohutta mountain, in Mni-ray 

 county, Georgia. The name comes from gahuld'yl, " a shed roof supported on 

 poles," and refers to a fancied resemblance in the summit. 



Gakati'yl — "Place of setting free" ; sometimes spoken in the plural form, Diga'Mti'yt, 

 "Place of setting them free." A point on Tuckasegee river about three miles 

 above Bryson City, in Swain county. North Carolina. See number 122. 



gakttifi'ta — an injunction, command or rule, more particularly a prohibition or cere- 

 monial tabu. Tsigdte'gu, "I am observing an injunction, or tabu"; adakle'gl, 

 "he is under tabu regulations." 



GaUtgi'na — a male deer (buck) or turkey (gobbler); in the first sense the name is 

 sometimes used also for the large horned beetle {Dyiiasles liU/nx.'). The Indian 

 name of Elias Boudinot, first Cherokee editor. See ]5age 111. 



gSli'sgisidd'hii— I am dancing aluiut; from gdU'sgia', "I am dancing," and eddlnV, 

 "I am going about." 



gaiunkw'ti'yu — honored, sacred; used in the bible to mean holy, hallowed. 



gSluii'lati — above, on high. 



gSne'ga^skin. 



ganidawa'ski — the campion, catchfly or "rattlesnake's ma.ster" (Silene steUahi); the 

 name signifies "it disjoints itself," from gamdmi-dskdf, "it is unjointing itself," 

 on account of the peculiar manner in which the dried stalk breaks off at the 

 joints. 



Gansd'gl (or (rCmsdgiyl) — the name of several former settlements in the old Cherokee 

 country; it cannot be analyzed. One town of this name was upon Tuckasegee 

 river, a short distance above the present Webster, in Jackson county. North 

 Carolina; another was on the lower part of Canasanga creek, in McMinn county, 

 Tennessee; a third was at the junction of (^onasauga and Coosawatee rivers, 

 where afterward was locateil the Cherokee capital. New lOdiota, in Gordon 



