Kamári
Asháninka · numen · Asháninka traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
The kamári are the malevolent spirits, or demons, of Asháninka cosmology, the counterpart of the benevolent maninkari and tasorentsi. Brought forth by the dark creator Kientibakori, they bring sickness, misfortune, and death, and it is against them that the sheripiári shaman labors, using tobacco and the ayahuasca brew to see and to fight them. They inhabit the forest, the ravines, and the lower levels of the layered cosmos.
Parentage
- parent: KientibakoriRojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary)
Domains
- evil spirits
Powers
- bring sickness, misfortune and death
Relations
- parent: KientibakoriRojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary)
- enemy: ManinkariWeiss, Gerald. 1975. Campa Cosmology. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 52(5). (primary)
Sources
- The kamári are the malevolent spirits or demons, opposed to the good spirits, who bring illness and death and are made by Kientibakori.: Weiss, Gerald. 1975. Campa Cosmology. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 52(5). (primary); Instituto Socioambiental. 'Ashaninka.' Povos Indígenas no Brasil. pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary)