Day Beings
Desana · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Desana/Tukano (Vaupés). English 'Day Beings' leads; Desana Emëkóri-mahsë (a collective class of celestial/'day-dimension' beings). Treated as a deity-class. Sex defaults male per 'mahsë' (man/being) though the class is collective. Variant Emekori-mahse / Emekoru-mahse across sources.
Domains
- daylight and moral order
Powers
- establish the rules of the day
Sources
- Emëkóri-mahsë (the Day-Dimension Beings) are sky beings who set the rules of life and serve as intermediaries reached by the shaman, paired with the Diróa-mahsë and mediated by Vihó-mahsë (master of the snuff).: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo (1971). Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. University of Chicago Press. (secondary)