Pachakamáite
Asháninka · deity · Asháninka traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Pachakamáite is a benevolent sky-deity, ranked among the fathers (páwa) and named in the recorded cosmology as the son of the sun. His name is a reflex of the pan-Andean creator Pachacamac, absorbed into the Asháninka pantheon of transformer-spirits, and he is regarded as a source of goods and well-being for humankind. He belongs to the class of good spirits of whom Pavá is chief.
Parentage
- parent: PaváRojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary)
Domains
- creation sky
Powers
- sends manufactured goods and well-being to humankind
Relations
- parent: PaváRojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary)
- ally: TasorentsiWeiss, Gerald. 1975. Campa Cosmology. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 52(5). (primary)
Sources
- Pachakamáite is a benevolent deity of the sky reckoned a Pavá (father-god) and named as the son of the Sun.: Instituto Socioambiental. 'Ashaninka.' Povos Indígenas no Brasil. pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary); Rojas Zolezzi, Enrique. 1994. Los Ashaninka: un pueblo tras el bosque. Lima: Fondo Editorial PUCP. (secondary)