Kuyen

Küyen (Kueyen) is the Moon of Mapuche belief, the principal wangulen (star-spirit) and the wife of the sun Antü, named in the prose of mapuche_antu (which is paired with the moon Küyen). Authored here with the spouse link to Antü. The figure has a standing Wikipedia entry as Kueyen.

Domains

• moon

Powers

• Bear the moon through the night and balance the sun

Relations

• spouse: AntüWife of the sun Antü; the pairing of moon and sun, night and day, is the equilibrium of the Mapuche sky.Mapuche tradition: the sun Antü takes the moon Küyen, the most luminous wangulen, to wife (secondary)

Sources

• existence: Tomas Guevara, Historia de Chile: Chile prehispanico (1925) (secondary); Ricardo E. Latcham, La organizacion social y las creencias religiosas de los antiguos araucanos (1924) (secondary)