Marangatú
Guaraní · mortal · mythic · Recorded classification
The pious ancestral chief, father of Keraná (Colmán 1929; González Torres). Authored as the prose-named father of the existing figure guarani_kerana, who should gain parentIds += guarani_marangatu. In the Colmán systematization he is a son of the first humans Rupavé and Sypavé and brother of the prophet Tumé Arandú and of Japeusá; those further ancestors are not named in the window prose and are left unauthored here.
Children
Domains
- ancestral piety and virtue
Relations
- father of: KeranáFather of the beautiful Keraná, the mortal mother of the seven monsters; named in the Keraná tradition as the pious Marangatú whose daughter Tau seized.Colmán, Ñande Ypy Kuéra (1929); González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Narciso R. Colmán, Ñande Ypy Kuéra / Nuestros antepasados (1929) (secondary); Dionisio M. González Torres, Folklore del Paraguay (Asunción, 1980s; repr. 1995) (secondary)
- parentage-of-kerana: Colmán, Ñande Ypy Kuéra (1929) — Keraná as the daughter of the pious Marangatú (secondary)