Achuguayo

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

Sources

• Bethencourt Alfonso, J. (1911). Historia del pueblo guanche. Tenerife.
• Tejera Gaspar, A. (1988). La religion de los guanches. La Laguna.