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Bororo · demigod · mythic · Recorded classification
Bororo (Mato Grosso, Brazil), as recorded by Lévi-Strauss and the Salesians Colbacchini & Albisetti. English 'Sun' leads; Bororo Méri. One of the twin sun-and-moon culture-hero brothers (with Ari the Moon) foregrounded by the registry; ranked demigod per the culture-hero/twin tier. Sex male.
Domains
- sun
- culture hero deeds
Powers
- blaze as the daytime sky
Epithets
- Meri The Sun; the central culture-hero of the Bororo (with Ari, the Moon)Colbacchini & Albisetti, Os Bororos Orientais; Lévi-Strauss (secondary)
- Méri 'Sun'Colbacchini & Albisetti (1942). Os Boróros Orientais. (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: MoonSun 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
- Meri (Méri) is the Bororo personification of the Sun and one of the two culture-hero/trickster brothers, the elder and cleverer; his brother Ari is the Moon.: Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1969 [1964]). The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1. New York: Harper & Row. (secondary); Colbacchini, Antonio & Albisetti, Cesar (1942). Os Boróros Orientais. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional. (secondary)
- The Meri-and-Ari cycle is a foundational Bororo myth set thematizing sun/moon, life/death and the rules of descent and marriage.: Crocker, J. Christopher (1985). Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. (secondary)