Note 92 — SENECA FICTION, LEGENDS, AND MYTHS (continued 9)
Reading edition
The original meaning of this term is “He is master or controller or ruler of it”; i.e., any object of conversation. It is now a name of the God of the Christian Church, and so is applied here to the one whom the earlier story-tellers would have called ‘Teʻharoⁿʻhiawăʹʼgoⁿʼ’, the Master of Life.