Sun-Father

Desana/Tukano (Vaupés, Colombia), as recorded by Reichel-Dolmatoff. English 'Sun-Father' leads; Desana Abé ('sun'). The Sun-Father is the creator-deity, distinct from his emissary Pamurí-mahsë whom he sent to populate the earth. The yellow-light/seminal-power theme is central to Reichel-Dolmatoff's reading.

Children

• Daughter of the Sun

Domains

• sun
• creation
• fertility and creative energy

Powers

• create the world with yellow light
• creates and sustains the world with his yellow seminal light
• sends Pamurí-mahsë to people the earth and the Daughter of the Sun who bears the vine

Epithets

• Pagÿ Abé latin · Page Abe (Sun Father) · oralThe Sun Father, who created the world with the light of his yellow intention and set its orderGerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, Amazonian Cosmos (secondary)

Relations

• lover: Daughter of the SunReciprocal of desana_daughter_of_the_sun.lover — The 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)
• companion: Maker of HumanityReciprocal of desana_pamuri_mahse.companion — Sent by the Sun Father as helmsman of the anaconda-canoe that carried the first people up the rivers to people the land.G. Reichel-Dolmatoff, Amazonian Cosmos (Chicago 1971) (secondary)

Sources

• The Sun-Father (Abé) is the Desana creator who made the earth, plants and animals from his own yellow light; he is himself a paye seated on his bench with rattle and sound-stick.: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo (1971). Amazonian Cosmos: The Sexual and Religious Symbolism of the Tukano Indians. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (secondary); Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo (1968). Desana: Simbolismo de los indios Tukano del Vaupés. Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, pp. 24-30. (secondary)