Yaro
Daribi · demigod · Daribi traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Yaro is the light-skinned daughter who followed her father Souw down the river Bore when he departed, and from her descend all light-skinned peoples, while her dark-skinned sister Karoba remained behind. The pairing accounts in Daribi thought for the visible division of humanity and, in tellings shaped by the colonial encounter, for the disparity in wealth and goods between Europeans and the Daribi.
Parentage
- parent: SouwSouw is her father.Roy Wagner, The Curse of Souw (1967). (primary)
- maternal: Widow of the Bore
Domains
- ancestry
Powers
- founds the light-skinned peoples
Relations
- parent: SouwSouw is her father.Roy Wagner, The Curse of Souw (1967). (primary)
- sibling: KarobaKaroba is her dark-skinned sister.'Le travail du mythe', ch. 4 (books.openedition.org/sdo/1224): the two daughters of the widow of the Bore. (secondary)
Sources
- Yaro is the light-skinned daughter who follows Souw down the Bore and becomes ancestress of all light-skinned peoples, while her sister Karoba remains behind.: 'Le travail du mythe', ch. 4 'Le changeur de peau ou la malediction paternelle' (Societe des Oceanistes; books.openedition.org/sdo/1224), recounting Wagner's Daribi Souw myth. (secondary)