Nitsuegï
Kalapalo · numen · Kalapalo traditional religion; continuing · numen
Nitsuegï is the jaguar, one of the itseke, to whom the maker Kwatïngï sends the women he has carved from wood. Taking the wooden woman as wife, the jaguar becomes father of the demiurge-twins Taugi and Aulukumã. His household, however, is a place of danger: his own mother, an old cannibal jaguar-woman, murders his pregnant wife, so that the twins are born from her body and raised in the very house where she died. The figure joins the Xingu pattern in which the jaguar stands as the fierce affine of the human and the primordial line.
Parentage
Children
Domains
- predation jaguar
- affinity marriage
Powers
- Fathers the demiurge-twins
Relations
- spouse: The Wooden Woman
- parent: The Jaguar's Mother
- child: Taugi
- child: Aulukumã