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Mapuche · deity · mythic · deity

Supreme being of the Mapuche, the fourfold 'ruler of the people' embodied as paired elder and young man and woman who hold cosmic balance.

Domains

creation
sovereignty

Powers

Rule and sustain the Mapuche people and the world
Embody himself as old man, old woman, youth and maiden

Epithets

Ngünechen
Chaw Dios
Nuke Dios

Relations

equated with: Fücha

Sources

Guevara, Historia de Chile (1925); Latcham (1924); recorded Mapuche oral tradition

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