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MUTCHUT — MYTHOLOGY 



[b. a. e. 



Mutchut. A village of the Powhatan 

 confederacy, situated in 1608 on the n. 

 bank of Mattapony r., in King and Queen 

 co.,Va. — Smitli (1(529), Va., i, map, repr. 

 1819. 



Mutistul. An important Yukian Wappo 

 village in Knight's valley, Sonoma co., 

 Cal. (s. A. B.) 



Mutistals.— Stearns in Am. Naturalist, xvi, 208, 

 1882. Mu-tistul. - Gibbs in Schoolcraft, Ind. 

 Tribes, lii, 110, lS.i3. 



Mutsiks [Mnt'-slks, 'braves' ). A society 

 of the Ikunuhkahtsi, or All Comrades, in 

 the Piegan tribe; it consists of tried war- 

 riors. — Grinnell, Blackfoot Lodge Tales, 

 221, 1892. 



Mutsun. A Costanoan village near San 

 Juan Bautista mission, San Benito co., 

 Cal. The name was used for a group and 

 dialect of the Costanoan family. The 

 Mutsun dialect being better known than 

 others allied to it, owing to a grammar 

 and a phrasebook written by Arroyo de la 

 Cuestain 1815 (Shea, Lib. Am. Ling., i, ii, 

 1861), the name came to be used for the 

 linguistic family of which it formed part 

 and which was held to extend northward 

 beyond the Golden Gate and southward 

 beyond Monterey, and from the sea to 

 the crest of the sierras. Gatschet and 

 Powell used it in this sense in 1877. Sub- 

 sequently Powell divided the INIutsun 

 family, establishing the Moquelumnan 

 family (q. v. ) e. of San Joaquin r. and the 

 Costanoan family (q. v.) w. thereof. 

 Motssum. — Engelhardt, Franciscans in Cal., 398, 

 1897. Mutseen— Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Nov 23, 

 1860. Mutsunes. — Ibid., Feb. 22. Mutzun. — Simeon, 

 Diet. Nahuatl, xviii, 1S85. Mutzunes. — Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860 Nuthesum.— Ibid. 



Muttamussinsack. A village of the Pow- 

 hatan confederacy in 1608, on the n. bank 

 of the Rappahannock, in Caroline co., 

 Va.— Smith (1629), Va., I, map, repr. 1819. 



Mututicachi. A former pueblo, appar- 

 ently of the Teguiina division of the 

 Opata, on the upper Rio Sonora, Sonora, 

 Mexico. It is said to have been aban- 

 doned on the establishment of the mission 

 of Suamca in 1730. According to the 

 RudoEnsayo (ca. 1762) it was a Pima set- 

 tlement, but this is doubtless an error. 

 The present hamlet of Mututicachi con- 

 tained 27 persons in 1900. 

 Motuticatzi.— Rudo Ensayo {ca. 1762), 160, 1863. 

 Mututicachi. — Bandelierin Arch. Inst. Papers, iv, 

 •1S3, 1.S92. 



Muutzizti ( from Cora muuti, ' head ' ) . 

 A subdivision of the Cora proper, inhab- 

 iting the central part of the Nayarit mts., 

 Jalisco, Mexico. 



Muutzicat,— Ortega, Vocab.en Lengua Castellana 

 y Cora, 1732, 7, 1K88 (sing. form). Muutzizti. — 

 Orozeo y Berra, Geog., 59, 1864. 



Muvinabore. Mentioned by Pimentel 

 (Lenguas, ii, 347, 1865) as a division of 

 the Comanche, l>ut no such division is 

 recognized in the tribe. 



Muyi iMu^i/i). The Mole clan of the 

 Hopi of Arizona. — Voth, Traditions of 

 the Hopi, 37, 40, 1906. 



Mwawa {Ma^'Iiwuwtt, 'wolf'). A gens 

 <if the Shawnee, q. v. 



Ma'hwaw'. — Wm. Jones, inf n, 1906. M'-wa-wa. — 

 Morgan, Ane Soc, 168, 1877 



My eengun ( Ma " /' ■ ngiin, ' wolf ' ) . A gens 

 of the Chippewa, q. v. 



Mah-een-gun, — Warren (1852) in Minn. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., V 44, 1885. Ma' ingan— Gatschet, Ojibwa 

 MS , B .\ E, 1882. Ma ingan.—Wm Jones, inf n, 

 1906. Myeen'-gun —Morgan, Anc. Soe., 166, 1877. 



Myghtuckpassu. A village of the Pow- 

 hatan confederacy in 1608, on the s. bank 

 of Mattaponv r., King William co., Va. — 

 Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. 



Myhangah. See Mohongo. 



Mystic (from luissi-tuk, 'great tidal 

 river.' — Truml>ull). The name of at 

 least two former villages in New Eng- 

 land, one on tlie river of the same name 

 at Medford, Middlesex co., Mass., which 

 was occupied in 1649 and was in the Mas- 

 sachuset country. The other was a Pe- 

 quot village on the w. side of Mystic r., 

 not far from the i^resent Mystic, New 

 London co., Conn. It was burned by the 

 English in 1637. (.t. m.) 



Mestecke.— Brewster (1657) in Mass. Hist. Soc. 

 Coll., 4th s., VII, 82, 1865. Mestick.— Eliot (1649), 

 ibid., 8d s., iv, 88, 1834. Mistick.— Diidlev (ca. 

 1630), ibid., 1st s.. viii, 39, 1802. Mystick.— Pike 

 (1698) in N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll.. in, 49^ 1870. 



Mythology. The mythology of the 

 North American Indians embraces the 

 vast and complex body of their opinions 

 regarding the genesis, the functions, the 

 history, and the destiny not only of 

 themselves but also of every subjective 

 and of every objective phenomenon, 

 principle, or thing of their past or present 

 environment which in any marked man- 

 ner had affected their welfare. 



Among savage tribal men a myth is 

 primarily and essentially an accountof the 

 genesis, the functions, the history, and 

 the destiny of a humanized fictitious male 

 or female personage or being who is a 

 personification of some body, principle, 

 or phenomenon of nature, or of a faculty 

 or function of the mind, and who per- 

 forms his or her functions by imputed 

 inherent orenda (q. v. ), or magic power, 

 and by whose being and activities the 

 inchoate reasoning of such men sought to 

 explain the existence and the operations 

 of the ])odies and thei)rinciples of nature. 

 Such a being or personage might and did 

 personify a rock, a tree, a river, a plant, 

 the earth, the night, the storm, the sum- 

 mer, the winter, a star, a dream, a 

 thought, an action or a series of actions, 

 or the ancient or prototype of an animal 

 or a bird. Later, such a being, always 

 humanized in form and mind, may, by 

 his assumed absolute and mysterious con- 

 trol of the thing or phenomenon person- 

 ified, become a hero or a god to men, 

 through his relations with them — rela- 

 tions which are in fact the action and 

 interaction of men with the things of 

 their environments. A mythology is 



