Luisón
Guaraní · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Seventh-born; lord of death and the night, corpse-eater, root of the lobizón/werewolf belief (González Torres; Colmán 1929). Child of Tau + Keraná; sibling of the other six. Completes the seven, collectively associated with the Pleiades (Eichu).
Parentage
Domains
- lordship of death and the dead
- the night and cemeteries
Powers
- preside over death and feed on the dead
- embody the curse of the seventh son (the lobizón)
Relations
- sibling: Teju JaguaBrother (first-born). Reciprocal.González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay; Colmán (1929) (secondary)
- sibling: Mbói Tu'ĩBrother (second-born). Reciprocal.González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay; Colmán (1929) (secondary)
- sibling: MoñáiBrother (third-born). Reciprocal.González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay; Colmán (1929) (secondary)
- sibling: Jasy JateréBrother (fourth-born). Reciprocal.González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay; Colmán (1929) (secondary)
- sibling: KurupiBrother (fifth-born). Reciprocal.González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay; Colmán (1929) (secondary)
- sibling: Ao AoBrother (sixth-born). Reciprocal.González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay; Colmán (1929) (secondary)
Sources
- Luisón (Luisõ), the seventh and most cursed child of Tau and Keraná, is lord of death and the night, a corpse-eating haunter of cemeteries, and the Guaraní substrate of the South-American lobizón (werewolf), the cursed seventh consecutive son.: Dionisio M. González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay (1980s; repr. 1995) (secondary); Narciso R. Colmán, Ñande Ypy Kuéra (1929) (secondary)