Kuarahy

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

• Ñamandú
• Ñande Sy

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: Jasy
• equated with: Guaraci

Sources

• León Cadogan, Ayvu Rapyta (1959)
• Curt Nimuendajú, Die Sagen ... der Apapocúva-Guaraní, ZfE 46 (1914)
• Hélène Clastres, La Terre sans Mal: le prophétisme tupi-guarani (Paris: Seuil, 1975)