Tetewan (the Underworld Moon-and-Rain Goddess)
Cora · deity · Cora traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Tetewan (also Hurima, Nasisa) is the Cora goddess of the moon, of rain and of the underworld of the dead, paired in opposition to the celestial sun-father Tayau in the dualistic Cora cosmos.
Domains
- moon and night
- rain and the underworld
Powers
- to bring the rains from the watery underworld
Sources
- Tetewan is the Cora chthonic goddess of the moon, rain and the underworld, the dark counterpart to the sun Tayau.: 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)