Sweet Medicine
Cheyenne · demigod · myth age / culture hero age · Recorded classification
Culture-hero/prophet classed 'demigod' per schema (prophet/law-giver of the myth-age, recipient of a divine covenant). Cheyenne Mótsé'eóeve ('Sweet Medicine/Sweet Root'); popular Motseyoef; also widely 'Arrow Boy'.
Domains
- prophecy
- law giving
Powers
- receive the Sacred Arrows from Maheo
- establish the Council of Forty-Four and the law
- foretell the horse, the white man, and the loss of the buffalo
Epithets
- Sweet Medicine The prophet-hero who received the Sacred Arrows and the laws of the people at Bear ButtePeter J. Powell, Sweet Medicine (secondary)
- Mótsé'eóeve Sweet Medicine / Sweet RootP. J. Powell, Sweet Medicine (1969) (secondary)
Relations
- student: All-SpiritCheyenne prophet who receives the Sacred Arrows and covenant from Maheo, who carries the reciprocal 'mentor' edge.J. Stands In Timber & M. Liberty, Cheyenne Memories (1967); P. J. Powell, Sweet Medicine (1969) (secondary)
Sources
- Sweet Medicine (Mótsé'eóeve) is the Cheyenne prophet and law-giver who received the four Sacred Arrows (Maahotse) from Maheo at Bear Butte and founded Cheyenne government and ceremony.: George Bird Grinnell, 'The Cheyenne Indians,' 2 vols. (Yale, 1923). (ethnography); Peter J. Powell, 'Sweet Medicine,' 2 vols. (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1969). (ethnography)
- The Sacred Arrows comprise two Man Arrows and two Buffalo Arrows, kept by a hereditary Keeper and central to Cheyenne law.: Powell, 'Sweet Medicine' (1969). (ethnography); Llewellyn & Hoebel, 'The Cheyenne Way' (1941). (legal ethnography)