Jino Poto Warra, the hero sent into the underworld

Jino Poto Warra, whose name is glossed 'child of the leg/calf,' is a hero created by Karagabí to descend into the underworld domain of Tutruicá and accomplish feats there, delivering Emberá people from the dangers of that lower realm. He belongs to the same family of Jino-Poto world-crossing beings as the crab-healer Jinopotabá, and his mission expresses the ongoing rivalry between Karagabí's ordered world and Tutruicá's underworld.

Parentage

• Karagabí, the demiurge and orderer of the human world

Domains

• heroic deliverance

Powers

• to rescue the Emberá from the dangers of the underworld

Relations

• companion: Jinopotabá, the crab-healer who crosses the three worlds

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.