Muut

Muut was the personification of death in the culture of the Cahuilla , an Indian tribe that lives on the southern border of California with Mexico . He was depicted as an owl. Since in this culture death was seen as something natural and a part of life, it was not a terrifying figure, but rather a mediator.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lowell John Bean: Mukat's People: The Cahuilla Indians of Southern California . Ed .: University of California Press. 1974, p. 167 .