Anikê
Macuxi · demigod · mythic prehistoric · Recorded classification
Anikê is the least narratively developed of the three Macuxi hero brothers, but he is consistently and specifically named in the ethnographic record: the old Macuxi songs (erenkon) are described as the songs 'of Makunaima, Anikê and Insikiran'. He thus belongs, with his brothers, to the founding generation of sons of the Sun from whom the Macuxi trace their origin.
Parentage
- parent: Wei, the Sun
Domains
- ancestral song
Powers
- to establish, with his brothers, the ways of the first people
Relations
- sibling: Makunaima (Macuxi recension)The erenkon name Makunaima, Anikê and Insikiran together as the brother heroes of the beginning-time.Nádia Farage, As Muralhas dos Sertões, 1991 (secondary)
Sources
- Anikê is one of the trio of ancestral hero brothers, sons of the Sun, whose deeds the Macuxi celebrated in their traditional erenkon songs together with Makunaima and Insikiran.: Nádia Farage, As Muralhas dos Sertões: os povos indígenas no rio Branco e a colonização, Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra/ANPOCS, 1991 (secondary); Paulo Santilli, Pemongon Patá: Território Macuxi, rotas de conflito, São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2001 (secondary)