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

creation by, 53 , 311 –312n1

murder and revival of, 7 , 16

woman's tenderness to, 156

Manje, Juan, 33 , 36 , 236

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

kinds of, 170 c, 171

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, 237 , 322 n2

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