Sun

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
• Méri

Relations

• sibling: Moon

Sources

• Lévi-Strauss, Claude (1969 [1964]). The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1. New York: Harper & Row.
• Colbacchini, Antonio & Albisetti, Cesar (1942). Os Boróros Orientais. São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional.
• Crocker, J. Christopher (1985). Vital Souls: Bororo Cosmology, Natural Symbolism, and Shamanism. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.