Transforming Spirits

Bororo (Mato Grosso). English 'Transforming Spirits' leads; Bororo bope. A spirit-class (not a single individual) rendered as a deity-class per the schema rule. Sex 'none' (collective, non-gendered). Paired conceptually with the aroe; the bari shaman is the bope-medium, the aroe etawara the aroe-medium.

Domains

• transformation and decay
• illness and death

Powers

• drive the cycles of growth and rot

Epithets

• the Bope

Sources

• Crocker, J. Christopher (1985). Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
• Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1973 [1955]). Tristes Tropiques. New York: Atheneum.