Makonaima

Kapon (Akawaio and Patamona) recension of the Makunaima cosmological figure shared with the Pemon. The cross-tradition counterpart of the Pemon Makunaima (registered separately), preserved in the Kapon recension specifically as the founding-figure of the piaiman shamanic tradition. The Kapon-Pemon shared Wazacá-tree cosmology spans the Pakaraima Mountains across the Guyana-Venezuela-Brazil tri-border zone — the geographical-cultural basis for the Kapon atlas-entry that complements the previously-only-Pemon-anchored region.

Children

• Sigu

Domains

• creator and founder of the piaiman tradition
• fire flood and tree of life

Powers

• Created/brought fire and brought forth diseases
• Felled the Tree of Life, unleashing a great flood

Epithets

• Makonaima

Relations

• cross tradition counterpart: Makunaima

Sources

• Brett, Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana (1880); Im Thurn, Among the Indians of Guiana (1883); Butt Colson, "Akawaio Migrations and Settlements" (Antropológica 31, 1971); Sanders, Patamuna Origin Narratives (1987); Whitehead, ed., In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia (2004)