Insikiran (Macuxi recension)

Macuxi recension of the Insikiran cosmological figure shared across the Carib-language family of the Guiana Highlands. The cross-tradition counterpart of the Pemon Insikiran (registered separately as insikiran), with the same narrative-content preserved in the Macuxi recension specifically through the Yomba-Tomba lineage-foundation tradition. The Macuxi-and-Pemon co-presence of the Wazacá-tree cosmology is the structural basis for the shared Macuxi-Kapon-Pemon atlas-zone in the Mount Roraima region.

Domains

• cosmological lineage founder

Epithets

• Insikiran latin · Insikiran · oralThe culture-hero brother of the Macushi creation, who orders the world with his kinTheodor Koch-Grünberg, on the Roraima cycle (secondary)

Relations

• cross tradition counterpart: InsikiranThe Macuxi Insikiran is identical in narrative-content to the Pemon Insikiran (registered as insikiran). The two registry-entries are the same figure preserved in two cross-Carib-language recensions of the same cosmological cycle, with the Macuxi recension preserving the Yomba-Tomba lineage-foundation specifically.Koch-Grünberg 1924 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Koch-Grünberg, Vom Roraima zum Orinoco vol. II (1924); de Cora, Kuai-Mare: Mitos Aborigenes de Venezuela (1957); Gordon, Línguas indígenas brasileiras: Macuxi (Sociolinguistic Survey, 2006); Andrello, Cidade do índio: Transformações e cotidiano em Iauaretê (2006) (primary)