Day Beings

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

• Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo (1971). Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. University of Chicago Press.