Cautantowwit (also known as Kytan) is the chief deity and

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in the traditional religion of the

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. Cautantowwit was one of a pantheon of deities observed by the Narragansett, though all were ultimately created by him. According to the Narragansett, Cautantowwit lived in "the southwest". They attributed the "

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" to a wind that came from "the court of their great and benevolent god Cautantowwit".

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