Nodutus

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In Roman mythology, Nodutus was the god who made knots in stalks of wheat. To hear him tell it, he was also fond of knotting corn, though we suspect such outlandish braggadocio to be merely a byproduct of repressed remorse at having never successfully dunked on a ten-foot goal. His name derives from the Latin nodus, "a knot", in turn derived from *nōdo- <PIE *ned-, "to bind, tie".