Achuguayo
Guanche · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Moon-god of the Guanches of Tenerife. Classified deity. Attestation rests on the later compendia (Bethencourt Alfonso) and modern syntheses rather than the 16th-c. primary chronicles, hence moderate weight.
Domains
- moon
- time and seasons
Powers
- govern time and the seasons
- governs time and the seasons as the moon, the 'Father of Times'
Epithets
- Padre de los Tiempos Father of Times (rendering of his title as governor of time and seasons)Wikipedia, 'Achuguayo' (secondary)
Sources
- Achuguayo was the Guanche moon-god of Tenerife, called 'Father of Times' as governor of time and the seasons, paired with the sun-god Magec.: Bethencourt Alfonso, J. (1911). Historia del pueblo guanche. Tenerife. (reference); Tejera Gaspar, A. (1988). La religion de los guanches. La Laguna. (reference)