the Moon's bride
Asháninka · mortal · Asháninka traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
The mother of the sun is a mortal woman, unnamed in the recorded narratives, who was kept in seclusion at her first menstruation when the moon came to her. He gave her people manioc and made her his wife; when she conceived and bore the sun, the child's heat consumed her and she died. Through her the solar deity is joined by descent to the moon, and the ambivalence of the lunar figure, giver of food yet bringer of death, is anchored in her fate.
Children
Domains
- human motherhood
Powers
- gives birth to the Sun and dies
Relations
- lover: KashiriRojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary)
- child: PaváRojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary)
Sources
- A mortal girl in menstrual seclusion became the wife of the moon and, bearing the sun, was burned to death.: Rojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary); Instituto Socioambiental. 'Ashaninka.' Povos Indígenas no Brasil. pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary)