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Mondamin (or ''Mandaamin'') is an Anishinaabe or Miami maize deity.〔Patricia Turner, Charles Russell Coulter, ( Dictionary of Ancient Deities ) p.327〕 In traditional Native American/First Nations' legend, he is believed to have given humans the maize by turning into a maize field after being defeated. Some of his comparative fame was justified by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, where Mondamin appears as maize personified. A crater on the dwarf world Ceres is named for the deity. ==Trivia== In Germany, the name Mondamin almost exclusively denotes a (now Unilever-held) brand of cornstarch-based convenience products. In 1913, Mondamin GmbH had chosen its company name especially in order to hint at the Hiawatha lore, the brand itself dating back to 1896.〔Mondamin brand website: (corporate history page ) (German)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mondamin (deity)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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