Lord of the East
Bororo · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Bororo (Mato Grosso). English 'Lord of the East' leads; Bororo Itubore (also Ituboré). Culture-hero / lord-of-the-dead of the eastern moiety path, complementary to Bakororo in the west. Treated as a deity.
Domains
- the dead
- the east
Powers
- receive the souls at the eastern path
- Receives the souls of the dead at the eastern path
Relations
- sibling: Lord of the WestReciprocal of bororo_bakororo.sibling — Brother 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
- Itubore is one of the two great Bororo culture-heroes and lords of the dead, associated with the east; with Bakororo (west) he frames 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)