Moon
Bororo · demigod · mythic · Recorded classification
Bororo (Mato Grosso). English 'Moon' leads; Bororo Arí. The second of the sun-and-moon culture-hero brothers (with Meri the Sun); ranked demigod per the twin/culture-hero tier. Sex male in the Bororo telling (the pair are brothers).
Domains
- moon
- culture hero deeds
Powers
- follow as the nighttime light
Epithets
- Arí 'Moon'Colbacchini & Albisetti (1942). Os Boróros Orientais. (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: SunReciprocal of bororo_meri.sibling — Sun and Moon are the brother pair of the Bororo culture-hero cycle, Meri the elder and dominant, Ari the blundering younger.A. Colbacchini & C. Albisetti, Os Boróros Orientais (1942), Meri and Ari cycle (primary)
Sources
- Ari (Arí) is the Bororo personification of the Moon and the younger of the two culture-hero/trickster brothers, brother of Meri the Sun.: Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1969 [1964]). The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1. Harper & Row. (secondary); Colbacchini, Antonio & Albisetti, Cesar (1942). Os Boróros Orientais. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional. (secondary)