Handbook of American Indians north of Mexico / edited by Frederick Webb Hodge.

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1907-1910
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    M U TC' H U T— M Y TH ()L< )G Y [B. A. E. Mutchut. A villajje of the Powhatan confederacy, situated in 1(308 on the n. l)ank of iNlattapony r., in King and t^'it'en co.,\a.—Smith (1029), Va,, i, map, repr. 1819. ' Mutistul. An important Ynkian \Vap|)0 village in Knight’s vallev, Sonoma co.. Cal. • (s. A. H.) ^ Mutistals.—Stearns in Am. Naturalist, .xvi, 208, 1882. Mu-tistul. - Gibbs in Schoolcraft Incl. Tribes, HI. no, 1853. Mutsiks (Mut'-sth, ‘ braves ’). A society of the Iknnnhkahtsi, or All Comrades, in the Piegan tribe; it consists of tried war- riors.—Crinnell, Plackfoot Lodge Tales, 221, 1892. Mutsun. A Costanoan village near San Juan Bautista mission, San Benito co.. Cal. The naiiie was tised fora group and dialect of the (bstanoan 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 i>art 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- se<iuently Powell divided the Mutsun family, establishing the Moqnelnmnan family (<]. v.) e. of San Joaquin r. and the Costanoan family ((j. v.) w. thereof. Motssum.—Kngelliardt, Franci.scans in Cal., 398, 1897. Mutseen.—Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Nov 23, 18(10. Mutsunes.—Ibid.. Fob. 22. Mutzun.—Simeon, Diet. Nahnatl, xviii. 1885. Mutzunes,—Taylor in Cal. Farmer, Apr. 20, 1860 Nuthesum.—Had. 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, rej>r. 1819. Mututicachi. A former pueblo, appar- ently of the Teguima 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 IMututicachi con- tained 27 i)ersons in 1900. Motuticatzi.—Rndo Kn.sayo {ca. 17621, 160, 1863. Mututicachi,—Bandelierin Arch. In,«t. Papers, iv, ■183, 1892. Muutzizti (from Cora nimtli, ‘head’). A subdivision of the (kira proper, inhab- iting the central })artof the Nayarit mts., Jali.sco, Mexico. Muutzicat.—Orlega, Vocab.cn I.ongua Castellana y Cora, 1732, 7, 1888 (sing. form). Muutzizti.— Orozco y Berra, Geog., .59, 1861. Muvinabore. Mentioned by Pimentel (Lenguas, ii, 347, 1865) as a division of the Comanche, but no sneb division is recognized in the tribe. Muyi (Mu'i/i). The INIole clan of the Hopi of Arizona.—Voth, Traditions of the Hopi, 37, 40, 1906. Mwawa {Ma‘'liwaw<‘, ‘wolf’). A gens of the Shawnee, (j. v. Mahwaw->.—Wm. loncs, inf’n,190(). M'-wa-wa.— -Morgan, Anc Soc., 168, 1877 Myeengun (Ma'I'ngun, ‘ wolf’). A gens of the Chippewa, q. v. Mah-een-gun.—Warren (1852) in Minn. Hist. Soc. Coll., v -11, 1885. Ma'ingan—Gatschet, Ojibua MS., B .\. E., 1882. Ma i ngan.—\Vm. .lones, inf n, 1906. My een'-gun —Morgan, Anc. Soc., 166, 1877. Myghtuckpassu. A village of the Pow- hatan confederacy in 1608, on the s. hank of Mattapony r.. King William co., Va.— Smith (1629), Va., i, map, repr. 1819. Myhangah. See Mohongo. Mystic (from vuf<.v-tuk, ‘great tidal riv^er.’—Trnmbnll). The name of at least two former villages in New Eng- land, one on the 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- qnot village on the w. side of IMystic r., not far from the ]>resent Mystic, New London co.. Conn. It was burned by the English in 1637. (.i. m.) Mestecke.—Brew.stcr (1657) in Miis.«. Hist. Soc. Coll., llh ,s., VII, 82, 1865. Mestick.—Eliot (1649), ibid., 3d s., iv, 88, 1834. Mistick.—Dudley (ca. 1630), ibid., 1st s.. viii, 39, 1802. Mystick.—Pike (1698) in N. H. Hist. Soc. Coll., iii 49, 1870. Mythology. The mythology of the North -American Indiana emliraces 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 jjienomenon, principle, or thing of their jiast or present environment which in any marked man- ner had affected their welfare. -Among savage tribal men a mytli is primarily and essentially an account of 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 bodies and the jirinciples 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 prototyjie of an animal or a bird. Later, such a being, always humanizt'd in form and mind, may, by his assumed absolute and mysterious con- trol of the thing or phenomenon jierson- ified, become a hero or a god to men, through his relations with them—rela- tions whi(“h are in fact the action and interaction of men with the things of their environments. A mythology is