Nemur
Chamacoco · deity · Chamacoco traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Nemur is the lame spirit-being who legislated the rites and pronounced the curse that binds the Ishir. When the people rose up and destroyed the primordial Anaposo, Nemur escaped to a hill in the northern Chaco, and as he withdrew he decreed that the Ishir must forever reenact the spirit-beings in masked ceremony and keep the mystery secret, on pain of the death of the people. His curse is the sanction that underwrites the whole ritual order: to abandon the ceremony is to invite extinction. He is imagined as deformed or limping, a mark of his uncanny nature, and is bound to a particular hill of the homeland.
Parentage
- parent: EschetewuarhaCordeu, Edgardo J. 'Aishtuwente.' Suplemento Antropologico 24-27, 1989-1992. (secondary)
Domains
- ritual law
- sanction and curse
Powers
- pronounces the curse that binds the people
- legislates the ceremonies of the men
Epithets
- The lame oneEscobar, Ticio. 'The Curse of Nemur.' Pittsburgh, 2007. (secondary)
Relations
- parent: EschetewuarhaCordeu, Edgardo J. 'Aishtuwente.' Suplemento Antropologico 24-27, 1989-1992. (secondary)
- companion: AshnuwertaEscobar, Ticio. 'The Curse of Nemur.' Pittsburgh, 2007. (secondary)
- sibling: PfaujataCordeu, Edgardo J. 'Aishtuwente.' Suplemento Antropologico 24-27, 1989-1992. (secondary)
- sibling: HoleCordeu, Edgardo J. 'Aishtuwente.' Suplemento Antropologico 24-27, 1989-1992. (secondary)
- sibling: KaimoCordeu, Edgardo J. 'Aishtuwente.' Suplemento Antropologico 24-27, 1989-1992. (secondary)
- companion: AnaposoEscobar, Ticio. 'The Curse of Nemur.' Pittsburgh, 2007. (secondary)
- enemy: SyrNemur curses the humans who slew the spirit-beings.Escobar, Ticio. 'The Curse of Nemur.' Pittsburgh, 2007. (secondary)
Sources
- Nemur is the lame primordial spirit-being who, when the Anaposo were slain, withdrew to a hill and cursed the Ishir to reenact the spirit-beings in secret ceremony forever, on pain of extinction.: Escobar, Ticio. 'The Curse of Nemur: In Search of the Art, Myth, and Ritual of the Ishir.' Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. (secondary)
- He is a legislator of the ritual order in Chamacoco cosmology.: Cordeu, Edgardo J. 'Aishtuwente. Las ideas de deidad en la religiosidad chamacoco.' Suplemento Antropologico 24-27, 1989-1992. (secondary)