Inka
Marubo · numen · Marubo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
The Inka figures in Marubo mythology as an already-existing lord, associated across Panoan traditions with fire, wealth and manufactured goods, who stands above the whites in the reckoning of origins. In the Shoma Wetsa cycle the transformed spirit of the burnt ancestress divides: her right side turns toward the pre-existing Inka, her left engenders the whites. The whites thus enter the world beneath the Inka, and the myth encodes a hierarchy among the peoples who possess the coveted goods of the outsider.
Domains
- manufactured goods
Powers
- holds precedence over the later-born whites
Sources
- In the Shoma Wetsa myth the Inka pre-exists as a lord toward whom the right side of the ancestress's spirit inclines, ranked above the whites who arise from her left side.: Melatti, J. C. 1985. A origem dos brancos no mito de Shoma Wetsa. Anuário Antropológico 84. Brasília: Editora UnB. (primary)