Mondamin (deity)

Mondamin or Mandaamin is in Native American mythology Native American God, probably originally of Miami or the Anishinabe (also Ojibwa or Chippewa ).

According to legend, Mondamin gave them corn, when he turned in a corn field after he was defeated.

Mondamin is also known by the poem The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow over chief Hiawatha, where Mondamin is described as personalized corn, and the film " Song of Hiawatha ".

In Germany the name Mondamin is best known as a brand name now to Unilever belonging Mondamin GmbH, which was founded in 1913 as a producer of corn starch and deliberately chose the name as a reference to the Hiawatha legend.