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Cautantowwit

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Cautantowwit (also known as Kytan) is the chief deity and creator god in the traditional religion of the Narragansett people.[1][2] Cautantowwit was one of a pantheon of deities observed by the Narragansett, though all were ultimately created by him.[2]

According to the Narragansett, Cautantowwit lived in "the southwest".[3] They attributed the "Indian summer" to a wind that came from "the court of their great and benevolent god Cautantowwit".[3]

References

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  1. ^ Fisher, Linford (2012). The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199912841.
  2. ^ a b Holifield, E. Brooks (2004). Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 77. ISBN 0742578593.
  3. ^ a b Sweeting, Alan (2003). Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer. University Press of New England. p. 60. ISBN 1584653140.