Myths of the Cherokee / Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology

by James Mooney

gitlû′—hair (Upper dialect); in the Middle and Lower dialects, gitsû′.

gitsû′—see gitlû′.

Glass, The—see Ta′gwădihi′.

Gohoma—A Lower Cherokee chief in 1684; the form cannot be identified. See page [31].

Going-snake—see I′nădûna′ĭ.

Gorhaleke—a Lower Cherokee chief in 1684; the form cannot be identified. See page [31].

Great island—see Ămăyeʻl-e′gwa.

Gregory bald—see Tsistu′yĭ.

Guachoule—see Guaxule.

Guaquili (Wakili)—a town in the Cherokee country, visited by De Soto in 1540, and again in 1567 by Pardo, who calls it Aguaquiri (see pages [25] and [28]). The name may have a connection with wagulĭ′, “whippoorwill,” or with u-)wâ′giʻlĭ, “foam.”