Mavíchikori
Cubeo · numen · Cubeo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Mavíchikori is the spirit of death in Hehénewa metaphysics, and paradoxically the author of generation. In a cosmos where the creators had brought forth only male beings and where sexual reproduction threatened the purity of male status, it is Mavíchikori who institutes the first marriage, joining the two sets of gods, the Anacondas and the Kúwaiwa. In doing so he initiates the first sexual intercourse and so sexual reproduction, and with it human mortality, of which he remains the master. Death and procreation thus enter the world together, as two faces of a single act.
Domains
- death
- marriage and sexuality
Powers
- institute the first marriage and intercourse
- bring death into the world
Epithets
- Mavíchikori — the spirit of deathIrving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) (secondary)
Relations
- companion: KúwaiwaHe instituted the marriage of the Kúwaiwa.Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) (secondary)
- companion: Ancestral AnacondaHe instituted the marriage of the Anaconda beings.Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) (secondary)
Sources
- Mavíchikori, the spirit of death, institutes the first marriage between the Anacondas and the Kúwaiwa and thereby the first sexual intercourse.: Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) (secondary)