Sun
Bororo · demigod · mythic · demigod
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.