Hutash is the Earth Mother of the Chumash and the maker of humankind. In the creation narrative recorded from Harrington's consultants she sowed the seeds of a magical plant on Limuw, the island now called Santa Cruz, and from those seeds the first Chumash arose. Her husband, the Sky Snake Alchupo'osh whom the Chumash see in the Milky Way, gave the people fire, and under its warmth they multiplied until the island grew crowded and loud. To resettle them Hutash spanned a great rainbow, Wishtoyo, from the tallest peak of the island to the high mountains of the mainland; as the people crossed, some grew dizzy and fell into the sea, and out of pity she changed them into dolphins, whom the Chumash still call kin.