Seukúkui, the law-giving lord
Kogi · deity · Kogi traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Seukúkui is the ancestral law-giver of Kogi tradition, one of the founding lords born of the Great Mother. He is identified as the 'night chief' and Lord of the West, lord of the trees and of all things black, and is named as the principal lord who promulgated the Law of the Mother, sitting at the centre among the other lords. The Law of the Mother is the comprehensive sacred order in which every object, action and intention has a spirit-owner; it is this body of ancestral law that the mama priesthood spend years learning to guide, heal and interpret. As a son of the Mother, Seukúkui is brother to the first ancestor Sintana and to Aldauhuíku, lord of cultivation.
Parentage
- parent: Gauteóvan, the Great Mother
Domains
- law and cosmic order
- night and the west
Powers
- to promulgate and uphold the Law of the Mother
Epithets
- SeukúkuiGerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 'Los Kogi: una tribu de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia', Revista del Instituto Etnológico Nacional, Bogotá (1950-51). (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: Sintana, the first ancestorBoth are counted among the sons of the Great Mother, the founding lords of the world.Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 'The Great Mother and the Kogi Universe: A Concise Overview', Journal of Latin American Lore 13(1): 73-113 (1987). (secondary)
- sibling: Aldauhuíku, lord of cultivationBoth are counted among the founding lords born of the Great Mother.Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 'The Great Mother and the Kogi Universe: A Concise Overview', Journal of Latin American Lore 13(1): 73-113 (1987). (secondary)
Sources
- Seukúkui (Seyhukukui) is the founding lord identified as 'night chief' and Lord of the West who is the principal promulgator of the Law of the Mother, the ancestral law-giver of the Kogi.: Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 'The Great Mother and the Kogi Universe: A Concise Overview', Journal of Latin American Lore 13(1): 73-113 (1987). (secondary); Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, 'Los Kogi: una tribu de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia', Revista del Instituto Etnológico Nacional, Bogotá (1950-51). (secondary)