Sweet Medicine

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
• Mótsé'eóeve

Relations

• student: All-Spirit

Sources

• George Bird Grinnell, 'The Cheyenne Indians,' 2 vols. (Yale, 1923).
• Peter J. Powell, 'Sweet Medicine,' 2 vols. (Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1969).
• Powell, 'Sweet Medicine' (1969).
• Llewellyn & Hoebel, 'The Cheyenne Way' (1941).