Faro
Bambara · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Androgynous water deity of speech, light and order, born from Bemba's breath; master of the waters.
Parentage
- parent: Pemba
Domains
- water
- speech word
- cosmic order
Powers
- Reorganize and give each thing its place in creation
- Bestow speech, light and life upon the world
- Govern the waters and the river Niger
Epithets
- master of the Word and the waters The demiurge of water and of speech who reorganized the world and set its orderGermaine Dieterlen, Essai sur la religion bambara (secondary)
Relations
- enemy: TelikoFaro, master of water and the Word, and Teliko, genie of the air/wind, are cast as antagonists in the ordering of the world.Germaine Dieterlen, Essai sur la religion bambara (1951); Harold Scheub, A Dictionary of African Mythology (2000) (secondary)
- sibling: Mousso KoroniFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Pemba) per the figures' cited genealogy.
- sibling: NdomadyiriFull sibling — shares the same attested parentage (Pemba) per the figures' cited genealogy.
Sources
- existence: Dieterlen, Essai sur la religion bambara (Paris, 1951) (secondary)