Kuarahy
Guaraní · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
The Sun, elder divine twin, son of Ñamandú/Ñande Ru (Cadogan 1959; Nimuendajú 1914). Wired as twin sibling of Jasy and child of Ñamandú. Type 'deity': demiurgic Sun, son of the creator-god.
Parentage
Domains
- the sun
- demiurgic ordering of the world and day
- ancestral fatherhood of the guarani
Powers
- embody and shed the light of the sun
- order the world and slay the primordial monster-jaguars
- Avenge the slain mother and destroy the man-eating jaguars
Relations
- twin sibling: JasyElder twin; his brother is Jasy, the Moon, the erring younger twin. Reciprocal of guarani_jasy.twin sibling.Cadogan, Ayvu Rapyta (1959); the Guaraní twin-myth (primary); Nimuendajú (1914) (secondary)
- equated with: GuaraciBoth reflect Proto-Tupi-Guaraní *kʷarahɨ 'sun' (Tupi Guaraci ~ Guaraní Kuarahy), the same solar theonym.Egon Schaden, Aspectos fundamentais da cultura guaraní (1962) (secondary)
Sources
- Kuarahy (Mbyá Kuaray / Pa'i Rete Kuaray), the elder of the divine twins and son of Ñande Ru, is the Sun and demiurgic culture-hero who avenges his mother on the monster-jaguars and ascends as the sun; in the Mbyá recension he is the father of the Guaraní.: León Cadogan, Ayvu Rapyta (1959) (primary); Curt Nimuendajú, Die Sagen ... der Apapocúva-Guaraní, ZfE 46 (1914) (secondary)
- The Guaraní twin-myth (Sun and Moon brothers, the jaguar-vengeance, the road to the Land-without-Evil) is one of the most widely recorded narratives of lowland South America.: Hélène Clastres, La Terre sans Mal: le prophétisme tupi-guarani (Paris: Seuil, 1975) (secondary)