M
Magic songs
enticing women with, 151 –152
role in irrigation, 133
Malva (plant), 49 n
Man.
See also Humans
creation of (New English Bible), 64 –65
Man
Meoss's creation of, 46
likeness to gods, 78
Man-eagle, 160 –161
feathers from, 255
Man-god
characteristics of, 45
woman's tenderness to, 156
Man-over-nature myth, 124
Many Rattlesnakes (village), 322 n22
Many wells, 277
Maricopa Indians, 81 , 305 n3, 322 n23
Marital infidelity, 114 –116, 151 –152
Marriage
of Cadigum, 114
and gods, 43 , 67 , 76 –77, 111 , 180 –181, 282 , 318 n2
paradise persons and, 42 –43, 76 –77
regularization of, 308 –309n13
relation to origin of farm crops, 76 –77
significance of stories about, 77
Siuuhu's commandments about, 94
as symbolized by corn and pumpkin seeds, 83 c
Marty, Martin, 18
Mat making, dream sign about, 82
Mattina, Anthony, 12
Medicine, Hummingbird's, 109
Medicine man songs, 216 –217
Medicine man's stone, 213
Medicine men
bringing rain by, 115 c
Coyote having the power of, 70 –71
diminishment of power of, 187 c
divination, 321 n19
drinking cactus wine by, 128
flood's overpowering of, 72 –73
making plumes by, 217
owning Siuuhu's powers by, 129 c
power of, 79 –80
role in irrigation, 131 –132
use of lightning and thunder, 215
use of owls, 321 n20
Medicine songs, 175
Medicine woman, 125
making wind trouble by, 219
role in irrigation, 133
Meet the Sun, 147
Men.
See also Humans; Man as "creator gods," 137
fashioning from mud, 39
Menstral clock, male admiration for, 140
Mercury Series (Canadian Ethnology Service), 294 n10
Mescal painted chief, 236 –237
Mesoamerica, 293 –294n10, 294 –295n12, 307 n7. See also Aztecs
Mexicans, or Spaniards, 80
Milky Way, creation of, 50
Mirage, god of, 259
Mirage Doctor, 262
Moah-haht-tack, Moehahdheck, Mo-ho-dak, 54 , 143 , 145 , 190 , 191 , 205 . See also Muhadag Mountain
Moieties (descent groups), 310 n3, 320 nn13, 14, 325 n15
Mojave Indians, 96 , 120 , 142 , 292 n5, 299 n7, 312 n6
Molina, Felipe, 307 n6
Momaday, N. Scott, 291 n1
Monster-witch, execution of, 138 . See also Ho'ok
Moon
creation by First Born, 60
creation of, 49
creation of (New English Bible), 63 –64
creation of (Thin Leather), 55
as mother of coyote, 57 –58
Morality, Allison's interest in, 111
Mormonism, 19 –21, 295 –296nn14, 15, 16
Morning, creation of, 48
Morning Green Chief, 108 –110, 138 –140, 146 –148, 205 , 312 n6
defeat of, 206
enticing of the women of, 151 –152
powerful medicine of, 152
Morning Green Chief Great-house, 32
Motz, Fisher, 14
Mounds of Sand (place), 114
Mountain of the Foam (Sierra de la Espuma), 39
Mountains
creation of, 55
medicine in, 172 –173
Mount Lemon, 322 n23
Muhadag Mountain, 205 , 313 n8
Musk melon, Siuuhu's creation of, 94
Myth
concentration on individuals, 4
versus history, 2 –6, 281 , 283 , 307 n7
Mesoamerican and North American in general, 283 , 294 –295n12
mystical episodes, 8 –9
unique instance of three-generation story, 235
Mythology, 281 –284
as corpus of one person's tales, 282 , 304 n1
as terminated era of Native American literature, 283
variations in, 7