Ñande Sy
Guaraní · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Ñande Sy, Our Mother, the prose-named mother of the divine twins Kuarahy and Jasy (Cadogan 1959; Nimuendajú 1914). Both existing twins should gain parentIds += guarani_nande_sy (maternal); their father Ñamandú/Ñande Ru already wired. Typed deity as the divine mother of the demiurge-twins, consort of the creator. The corpus prose under guarani_kuarahy renders the name as Ñande Jary; the securely attested name of the twins-mother is Ñande Sy (Our Mother), whereas Ñande Jary means rather Our Grandmother.
Children
Domains
- divine motherhood of the twins
Relations
- mother of: KuarahyMother of Kuarahy, the elder twin, the Sun.Cadogan, Ayvu Rapyta (1959) (primary); Nimuendajú (1914) (secondary)
- mother of: JasyMother of Jasy, the younger twin, the Moon.Cadogan, Ayvu Rapyta (1959) (primary); Nimuendajú (1914) (secondary)
- spouse: ÑamandúWife of Ñande Ru (Ñamandú), the father of the divine twins, whom she goes to seek and on the way is slain by the jaguars.Cadogan, Ayvu Rapyta (1959) — the twins as sons of Ñande Ru (primary); Nimuendajú (1914) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: León Cadogan, Ayvu Rapyta (1959) (primary); Curt Nimuendajú, Die Sagen ... der Apapocúva-Guaraní, ZfE 46 (1914) (secondary)
- motherhood-of-the-twins: Nimuendajú (1914) — Ñandesy, mother of the Sun and Moon twins, killed by the jaguars while seeking the father of her children (secondary)