Jáfara
Maleku · deity · Maleku traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Jáfara is named among the three principal Maleku gods together with her parents, the creator Nharíne Cha Cónhe and Aóre Cha Cónhe. In the recorded cosmogony she is the daughter born of their union, and when Nharíne Cha Cónhe distributes the headwaters and waters of the Río Frío basin among the tócu, he grants to Jáfara the lagoons of Toro lhámi as her sacred seat. As a tócu of the waters she belongs to the company of deities each Maleku clan was bound to respect and venerate at its own river or lagoon.
Parentage
- parent: Nharíne Cha Cónhe
- parent: Aóre Cha Cónhe
Domains
- lagoons and still waters
Powers
- to preside over the lagoons of Toro lhámi
Sources
- Jáfara is a principal Maleku goddess, daughter of the creator Nharíne Cha Cónhe and Aóre Cha Cónhe, to whom her father granted the lagoons of Toro lhámi.: Alfredo Constenla Umaña, Laca majifijica: la transformación de la tierra, San José: Editorial de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 1993. (secondary); D. A. Solís Aguilar, "Etnografía socioespacial de las territorialidades históricas maleku en Costa Rica," Relaciones: Estudios de Historia y Sociedad, 2022, pp. 45-70. (secondary)