Lord of the West
Bororo · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Bororo (Mato Grosso). English 'Lord of the West' leads; Bororo Bakororo. A culture-hero / lord-of-the-dead presiding over the western moiety path, complementary to Itubore in the east. Treated as a deity. The pairing 'Itubore and Bakororo, east and west, death and life' is reported in the Salesian and Crocker material.
Domains
- the dead
- the west
Powers
- receive the souls at the western path
- Receives the souls of the dead at the western path
Relations
- sibling: Lord of the EastBrother culture-heroes born of the jaguar's human wife; they preside as complementary chiefs over the western and eastern villages of the dead.C. Albisetti & A. J. Venturelli, Enciclopédia Bororo I (1962) (primary)
Sources
- Bakororo is one of the two great Bororo culture-heroes and lords of the dead, associated with the west; with Itubore (east) he frames the cosmos as the axis of death and life.: Crocker, J. Christopher (1985). Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (secondary); Colbacchini, Antonio & Albisetti, Cesar (1942). Os Boróros Orientais Orarimogodogue. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional. (secondary)