Daughter of the Sun
Desana · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Desana/Tukano (Vaupés). English 'Daughter of the Sun' leads; she is the Yajé Woman, Desana gahpí mahsó ('gahpí' = the yajé/caapi vine; 'mahsó' = woman). A female culture-bringer treated as a deity. The Daughter of the Sun and the Yajé Woman are identified in Reichel-Dolmatoff's account; parent set to the Sun-Father accordingly. Variant gloss gaphi mahso.
Parentage
- parent: Sun-Father
Domains
- sacred vine
- visionary knowledge
Powers
- give birth to the visionary vine
Relations
- lover: Sun-FatherThe Sun's primordial incest with his daughter at Wainambi Rapids is the charter myth of the yaje (gahpi) and of exogamic law.G. Reichel-Dolmatoff, Amazonian Cosmos (Chicago 1971) (secondary)
Sources
- The Daughter of the Sun / Yajé Woman (gahpí mahsó) gave birth to the luminous child who is the yajé (caapi) vine; the ancestral men divided him among themselves, originating the yajé lineages.: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo (1971). Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. University of Chicago Press. (secondary)