Tʼuup

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

• Sukunkyum

Domains

• solar

Powers

• tend the sun

Epithets

• Tʼuup

Relations

• parent: Sukunkyum

Sources

• Robert D. Bruce, El Libro de Chan Kʼin (Colección Científica 12, INAH, 1974)
• Didier Boremanse, Contes et mythologie des indiens lacandons (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1986)