Kana Marí

Marubo · deity · Marubo traditional religion; continuing · deity

Kana Marí is the fashioning power of Marubo cosmogony, the demiurge celebrated in the myth-chant Kanã Mari mai vana, which tells how the earth was formed. Rather than creating from nothing, Kana Marí fabricates — shovima — assembling the world out of fragments already strewn across the primordial landscape: parts of animals, lengths of ayahuasca vine, and other scattered matter. This world-making by aggregation and transformation is the paradigm for how all things come to be in Marubo thought, and the demiurge is spoken of in the plural and paired language characteristic of the chants, so that sources describe the shaping agency as one of doubled or twinned fashioning spirits rather than a single lone creator.

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