Best name ever

[deralte]

I was reading article on instances of women participating in warfare in the upper Missouri area, and discussions of fourth gender and differing performances of female gender in those societies, and I came upon this quote.

"A Crow oral history depicts a situation where a mother dispatched her son's enemy by smashing the assailant's head with her hatchet; subsequently, her son's name became He-kills-with-his-mother."

That has to be one of the top ten most awesome and hilarious names in history.

Comments

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Now *that's* a name. Fong Sai Yuk eat your heart out.

[deralte.livejournal.com]

I keep picturing it anime style with He-kills-with-his-mother getting surrounded in battle all the time, but then they ask him his name, and he tells them and suddenly his mother is just... there. Ass kicking ensues:D

[fiatincantatum.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they meant it in the sense of "he fights along side his mother" or in the sense that "his mother is his secret weapon"

[deralte.livejournal.com]

That is one of the questions the article implies:) It's hard to get a real answer though.

[siria]

That's pretty fabulous! And an excellent extension of the "Together, they fight crime!" tradition... I wonder if anyone would write that series of detective stories!

[deralte.livejournal.com]

He-kills-with-his-mother breathed a sigh of relief when his mother retired before he joined the war band. But now He-kills-with-his-mother has counted coup on the wrong man, and the only choice He-kills-with-his-mother has is to team up with his mother to kill his enemy. The problem is that his mother is a much better warrior than him. Still, it's better than being scalped, right?

(Of scholarly note, the oral histories say that Scalped Man was no longer human. Scalped Woman? She got to bang and marry Coyote.)

[siria]

Hee! *gives you a virtual cookie*

Does the mother of He-kills-with-his-mother have a name?

[deralte.livejournal.com]

*noms*

She does not, though the article only briefly mentions a lot of these stories so perhaps the book it came from has the full story. I would track it down if I didn't have quals to study for.

He-That-Kills-With-His-Mother

[(Anonymous)]

My interpretation of the above-mentionedname is:

The-Family-That-Kills-Together-Stays-Together.

-JSTL
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Re: He-That-Kills-With-His-Mother

[deralte.livejournal.com]

And thus you have the motto of Supernatural and Grimm:)