Tetewan (the Underworld Moon-and-Rain Goddess)

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

• Konrad Theodor Preuss, Die Nayarit-Expedition: Textaufnahmen und Beobachtungen unter mexikanischen Indianern, Bd. 1: Die Religion der Cora-Indianer (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1912).
• 'Cora', in Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 8: Middle America and the Caribbean (New York: Macmillan, 1996).