Hatsikan (Elder Brother, the Morning Star)
Cora · deity · Cora traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Hatsikan ('Our Elder Brother'), identified with the morning star and with the maize/flower-picker god Sautari, is the Cora culture-hero and warrior who mediates between the celestial and chthonic powers; in the mitote he is the elder-brother of the deer-and-maize complex.
Domains
- morning star
- maize and culture hero
Powers
- to fight the powers of the underworld for the people
Sources
- Hatsikan ('Elder Brother') is the Cora morning-star and maize culture-hero who fights the underworld powers on behalf of humankind.: Konrad Theodor Preuss, Die Nayarit-Expedition: Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter mexikanischen Indianern, Bd. 1: Die Religion der Cora-Indianer (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1912). (secondary); 'Cora', in Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 8: Middle America and the Caribbean (New York: Macmillan, 1996). (secondary)