Moon amine (god)
Mondamin or Mandaamin is a god in Indian mythology of the North American natives , probably originally the Miami or the Anishinabe (also: Ojibwa or Chippewa).
The forecast for Mondamin has given them the corn donated by turned into a corn field after he was defeated.
Mondamin is also known through the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about Chief Hiawatha , where Mondamin is described as the personified corn, and the film Song of Hiawatha .
In Germany the name Mondamin in particular, as is brand name of the now Unilever belonging Mondamin GmbH known, was founded in 1913 as a producer of corn starch and the name deliberately to indicate the Hiawatha forecast chose.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sagen.at: Fairy tales and legends of the Indians of North America - cosmogony of the Miamis
- ↑ Patricia Turner, Charles Russell Coulter, Dictionary of ancient deities
- ↑ Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Anishinaabemowin Program: The Spirituality of Anishinaabemowin - Example 2 - Mandaamin ( Memento of the original from January 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ Götter-der-Welt.de: Götter M ( Memento of the original from October 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Makoche Reader Spring / Summer 2006 - THE STORY OF MANDAAMIN page 8 (English)
- ↑ XIII. The blessing of the cornfields ( Memento from May 30, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ IMDB: Song of Hiawatha (1997)
- ↑ Mondamin.de: The legend of the Indian god Mon-da-min ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
