Wei, the Sun

Wei, the Sun, stands at the head of Macuxi mythical genealogy. Koch-Grünberg's circum-Roraima corpus opens with the Sun's dealings with the water-spirit woman and the birth of the hero brothers, and later Macuxi ethnography (Farage 1991; Santilli 2001) records that the Macuxi consider themselves descendants of the Sun's children. Wei also figures in his own narrative episodes, such as his capture of the water maiden and his conflicts with the beings of the dark.

Children

• Anikê
• Makunaima (Macuxi recension)

Domains

• sun

Powers

• to engender the hero brothers who shape the world

Relations

• father of: Insikiran (Macuxi recension)Macuxi oral tradition holds the people to descend from the Sun's children, Insikiran and his brothers.Nádia Farage, As Muralhas dos Sertões, 1991 (secondary)
• father of: Makunaima (Macuxi recension)Makunaima is 'son of the Sun' throughout the circum-Roraima narratives.Theodor Koch-Grünberg, Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, Bd. II, 1924 (secondary)
• father of: AnikêAnikê is named among the brother heroes of the beginning-time descended from the Sun.Paulo Santilli, Pemongon Patá: Território Macuxi, rotas de conflito, São Paulo: Editora UNESP, 2001 (secondary)

Sources

• Wei, the Sun, is the divine father of the Macuxi culture-hero brothers Makunaima, Insikiran and Anikê, from whom the Macuxi trace their descent.: Theodor Koch-Grünberg, Vom Roraima zum Orinoco, Bd. II: Mythen und Legenden der Taulipang- und Arekuná-Indianern, 1924 (secondary); Nádia Farage, As Muralhas dos Sertões: os povos indígenas no rio Branco e a colonização, 1991 (secondary)