Pillán
Mapuche · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Ancestral storm-spirit of dead chiefs and warriors dwelling in the volcanoes, manifest as thunder, lightning and eruption.
Domains
- storm
- ancestry
Powers
- Hurl thunder, lightning and volcanic fire from the heights
- Gather the spirits of dead chiefs and warriors into the volcanoes
Epithets
- Pillañ the ancestral thunder-and-volcano spirit-power of the upper world (wenu mapu); the masculine sky-force of storm, fire and war, ancestor-spirit of warriorsFaron, Louis C. Hawks of the Sun, 1964 (secondary scholarship); Augusta, Félix José de. Diccionario araucano-español, Santiago, 1916 (primary ethnography)
Sources
- existence: Guevara, Historia de Chile (1925); Latcham (1924) (secondary)