Nahachish is a chief of the myth-age remembered in Luiseno song and story recorded by DuBois. He journeys through the country of the people, and as he passes he gives the villages, hills and springs their names, so that his travels fix the sacred geography of the Luiseno land. His itinerary, sung in the old ceremonies, ends with his death at the close of the journey. The figure belongs to the class of traveling culture-heroes whose wanderings account for the naming and ordering of the landscape.