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Native American Legends: Drinks Brain Soup
Name: Drinks Brain Soup
Tribal affiliation: Arikara
Also Known As: Drinks Brains
Native names: Tapaxčirahčiíka
Pronunciation: tah-pakh-chi-rah-chee-kah
Type: Hero twins
Related figures in other tribes: Curtain Boy (Crow),
Village Boy (Caddo),
Lodge Boy (Hidatsa)
Drinks Brain Soup is the name of an Arikara hero, one of a pair of magical twins. Despite his gruesome-sounding
name, Drinks Brain Soup is not a monster or a cannibal... his pregnant mother was killed, and his father
took him from
her womb and sustained him on a broth made from deer brains in place of mother's milk. His twin brother
Long Teeth
was magically generated from the afterbirth.
Drinks Brain Soup Stories
Long Teeth and Drinks Brain Soup:
The saga of the Arikara twin heroes.
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Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians:
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