Ba, the personified Thunder of the upper world
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Ba is the personified Thunder, one of the beings that dwell in the upper celestial world (bajía) together with the high god Karagabí. In Emberá thought thunder is not merely a natural event but a distinct sky-being whose voice belongs to the ordered upper cosmos, set above the earthly world of living people and the watery world below.
Domains
- thunder
Powers
- to sound as thunder across the sky
Sources
- Mitología embera. Principales mitos, características y funciones. Revista Bioetnia, vol. 8, no. 1, Instituto de Investigaciones Ambientales del Pacífico (IIAP), Quibdó, 2011.
- Isacsson, Sven-Erik. Transformations of Eternity: On Man and Cosmos in Emberá Thought. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, Department of Social Anthropology, 1993.