Cautantowwit

Cautantowwit (also known as Kytan) is the chief deity and creator god in the traditional religion of the Narragansett people.¹² 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

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

[1] Fisher, Linford (2012). The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199912841.

[brookes-2] Holifield, E. Brooks (2004). Era of Persuasion: American Thought and Culture, 1521–1680. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 77. ISBN 0742578593.

[summer-3] Sweeting, Alan (2003). Beneath the Second Sun: A Cultural History of Indian Summer. University Press of New England. p. 60. ISBN 1584653140.

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