Chaxiraxi
Guanche · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Mother-goddess / Sun Mother of the Guanches of Tenerife, consort of the high-god, mediated to humans by the Maxios spirits. Her cult underlies the later Marian cult of Candelaria. Classified deity.
Domains
- fertility
- sun
Powers
- mother the sustainer of heaven and earth
Epithets
- Chaxiraxi The great mother sun-goddess, “she who holds up the heavens”Guanche tradition (later syncretized with the Virgin of Candelaria) (secondary)
Relations
- spouse: AchamanThe Sun Mother as consort of the high god of Tenerife.Antonio Tejera Gaspar, La religion de los guanches (1988) (secondary)
- companion: Tutelary spiritsThe Maxios, tutelary intermediary spirits, mediate the Sun Mother to humankind.Antonio Tejera Gaspar, La religion de los guanches (1988) (secondary)
Sources
- Chaxiraxi is the Guanche Sun Mother and mother-goddess of Tenerife, 'mother of the sustainer of heaven and earth' (Achmayex Guayaxerax Achoron Achaman), associated with fertility and the star Canopus.: Espinosa, A. de (1594). Historia de Nuestra Senora de Candelaria. Seville. (reference); Barrios Garcia, J. (1997). 'Tara: a study of the Canarian astronomical pantheon', Archaeoastronomy 22 (JHA suppl.). (reference)
- After the conquest her cult was syncretised with the Virgin of Candelaria, the principal Catholic festivity of Tenerife.: Espinosa, A. de (1594). Historia de Nuestra Senora de Candelaria. (reference)