Tayau (Our Father the Sun)
Cora · deity · Cora traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Tayau ('Our Father') is the Sun, the supreme deity of the Cora (Náayeri) of the Sierra del Nayar in Nayarit, Mexico, recorded in detail by Preuss. His priesthood, the tonatí, and the seasonal mitote dances serve to sustain his course and the fertility it brings.
Domains
- the sun
- sky and zenith
Powers
- to rise and cross the heavens by day
Sources
- Tayau is the Cora sun god, 'Our Father', the highest deity whose daily passage across the sky is upheld by Cora ritual.: 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)