Rain
Kayapó · numen · Kayapó traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Rain appears in the horticultural cycle of Kayapó myth as a personified sky-power and, in tellings from Gorotire, as the father of the Star Woman who carries cultivated plants down to earth. He belongs to the upper world from which the ancestors themselves are said to have descended, and stands behind the fertility of the gardens his daughter establishes. His role is genealogical and cosmological rather than that of a fully elaborated character, and sources that stress the Star Woman as a mere star of the sky do not always name him; where he is named he anchors the crops to the waters that make them grow.
Children
Domains
- rain
- sky
Powers
- sends the rains upon the earth
Relations
- child: NhakpotiThe Star Woman is his daughter in Gorotire accounts.'Gorotire,' in David Levinson (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 7: South America (1994) (secondary)
Sources
- In Kayapó accounts recorded at Gorotire the Sky Woman who brings cultivated plants is the daughter of Rain, a personified power of the sky.: 'Gorotire,' in David Levinson (ed.), Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Vol. 7: South America (1994) (secondary)