Tʼuup
Lacandon · deity · Lacandon traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Tʼuup, 'the Youngest', is the smallest and last-born of the gods, charged with tending the sun. In the underworld cycle he cares for the sun that Sukunkyum bears, and narratives credit him with keeping its heat from consuming the world. He is reckoned a son of Sukunkyum.
Parentage
- parent: SukunkyumRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
Domains
- solar
Powers
- tend the sun
Epithets
- Tʼuup — the YoungestRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
Relations
- parent: SukunkyumRobert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (INAH, 1974) (primary)
Sources
- Tʼuup is the youngest and smallest of the gods, charged with tending the sun, and reckoned a son of Sukunkyum.: Robert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (Colección Científica 12, INAH, 1974) (primary); Didier Boremanse, Contes et mythologie des indiens lacandons (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1986) (primary)