páyatut

Name of the deity. míimi páyatut áwača aniłanmí waníčt ‘a long time ago Páyatut was the name of the Creator’; naamí pyáp páyatut ‘our elder brother the deity’; inmí aniłá páyatut ‘my Creator God’; payatutmí miyánaš ‘child of the spirit (said of someone returned from the dead—they used to let the corpse lie 5 days and if during that time the person woke up he might bring back a song)’. [NP /páyatot/ “an eagle soaring up high” (Eugene John).]