Thunderbird

Thus the Tinee were happy.

Then they disobeyed Thunderbird.

They used the sacred arrow.

Therefore arrow flew away.

Upon this, the Klamath Lake people began fighting the northerners because Old Grizzly had been killed by Old Gray Wolf.

Then Old Raven laughed at them when fighting, and they became rocks.

Origin of the Thunderbird Long, long ago, To'uluks, South Wind, traveled to the north.

There To'uluks met Quetzalcoatl, the giantess.

The need for distinction also extends beyond Farron's documents.

Thunderbird stories exist among many Indigenous peoples, but they are not one single pan-Indigenous story.

Similar English labels can conceal major differences of community, language, place, character and purpose.

This Sismo narrative should not be merged with every story that includes a powerful bird or links weather with wings.

The Ho tribe's cultural resources material, for example, describes tistilal, a thunderbird associated in Ho tradition with carrying whales inland.

The Ho account connects whales, whale rocks, open areas, and specific cultural landscape knowledge.

The Ho tribe also describes Thunderbird imagery in continuing community use, including use on regalia, clothing and stationery.

That is a distinct Ho tradition, with its own places and meanings.

Her research into Pukwudgies led her to delve into the mystery of the Bridgewater Triangle, just a fascinating, super weird place, one of New England's most infamous high strangeness areas.

The area has phenomena including numerous ghost sightings of Bigfoot, Thunderbirds, Giant Snakes, Phantom Lights, UFOs, and of course, Pukwudgies.

She's currently working on an archival project of WeFolk sightings and related phenomena across the country.

So I'm just delighted to welcome back to Talking Weird after quite the absence, Susie Bastille.

Whether a genuine sea serpent, a trick of the light, or simply a majestic moose on a morning swim, the monster of Poco Moonshine Lake is a perfectly preserved piece of 19th century American folklore, a reminder of a time when mystery could still surface from the depths of a remote Maine lake.

Soaring through the vast desert skies of Arizona, the Thunderbird is a cryptid that blurs the line between ancient mythology and modern monster sightings.

Far more than just a large bird, it's a creature of immense size and power, a living embodiment of the storm whose legend is deeply embedded in the history of the American West.

The Thunderbird originates as a powerful and sacred figure in the lore of numerous Native American tribes.

Now, in these traditions, it's not a mere animal, but a supernatural being that creates thunder with the beat of its colossal wings and shoots lightning from its eyes.

It represents the immense power of the sky and weather, often depicted as a benevolent spirit, protecting humans from malevolent forces from the underworld or beneath the water.

They allegedly dragged the massive carcass into town and had it photographed with its wingspan stretching the length of a barn.

The photo, allegedly published in the local newspaper, the Tombstone Epitaph, showed several men standing underneath one wing.

In West African Yoruba tradition, the Orisha Shango is the god of thunder and lightning, known for his power and his connection to justice.

In many indigenous cultures of North America, the Thunderbird was a powerful spirit that created thunder by flapping its enormous wings and lightning by blinking its eyes.

The Thunderbird appears in the mythologies of numerous tribes across the Pacific Northwest, the Great Plains, and the Northeast, with variations in its specific attributes and stories from culture to culture.

The near universal presence of thunder gods across unrelated cultures around the world suggests that the power and mystery of thunderstorms made a profound impression on early human societies everywhere, regardless of where they lived or what language they spoke.

The fear of thunderstorms, known as astrophobia or brontophobia, is one of the most common specific phobias, particularly among children.

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yeah so the thunderbirds the f-16s have a thunderbird painted underneath it and the thunderbird in southwestern native american culture is the same as the pamola is very similar to the mothman where you've got a half man a half bird that when they flap their wings it's it's so big it claps like thunder and and so i mean again Did these cultures, I don't think folks in Maine, like the Native Americans in Maine were communicating with the Native Americans in Arizona two or 300 years ago, but they made up the same story.

The clouds are his blankets.

Thunder clouds are the dressing up of the thunderbird.

Thunderbird produces a very loud noise by rustling his feathers.

Southeast wind lives under the sea.

Northeast wind abides along the northern mountains.

When there is thunder in winter, the Wyandottes say Henk is turning over.

Something has broken into his sleep.

Turtle and the Thunderbird Ojibwa once turtle was living all alone in a lake several times he was hit by something when he came out to see what it was he could see nothing at all one day he was struck again he thought he would ask some one to help him when he came out of the water he went into the woods he cried who will help me who will help me Deer ran out from among the shrubs and said, I will help you.

Um, y-y-you know what this, this, this all potentially reminds me of, Art? Um, one thing that I've investigated besides the flying humanoid forms are the, quote-unquote, "Thunderbirds." And, uh, Thunderbirds are cryptids.

They are, uh, the name Thunderbird is derived from different Native American traditions of these enormous Bird-like creatures, very different from the flying humanoids because they do appear to be either enormous birds with wing, uh, spans that are comparable to small airplanes or some people have described them-

Yeah

... as actually looking very prehistoric, uh, like the, you know, pterosaurs, the pterodactyls-

Um, you know, they don't, they don't resemble anything in the fossil history.

Um, they seem to vanish as quickly as they appear in, in sort of a supernatural, uh, fashion.

Uh, but on the other hand, you have these, again, these Thunderbird-type creatures, you know, which is kind of what you're telling, talking about there.

This giant prehistoric bird-like creature-