Rane Topne

Rane Topne, reckoned to the Ranenwabo section, is the lone surviving son of the cannibal Shoma Wetsa, spared and hidden by his father while his siblings and his own newborn children are devoured. He is the hero of the myth: after his weapons shatter uselessly against his mother's iron flesh, he grasps the single truth that can defeat her — that she fears fire — and burns her in the maloca. His act closes the age of the man-eating grandmother and sets in motion the transformation of her returning spirit into the whites and the Inca.

Parentage

• maternal: Shoma Wetsa
• paternal: Noin Namesh Koa

Domains

• culture hero

Powers

• discovers that fire alone can kill the iron ogress

Relations

• child: Shoma WetsaMelatti, J. C. 1985. A origem dos brancos no mito de Shoma Wetsa. Anuário Antropológico 84. Brasília: Editora UnB. (primary)
• child: Noin Namesh KoaMelatti, J. C. 1985. A origem dos brancos no mito de Shoma Wetsa. Anuário Antropológico 84. Brasília: Editora UnB. (primary)
• enemy: Shoma WetsaHe ultimately burns the mother who devoured his children.Melatti, J. C. 1985. A origem dos brancos no mito de Shoma Wetsa. Anuário Antropológico 84. Brasília: Editora UnB. (primary)

Sources

• Rane Topne, of the Ranenwabo section, is the one son of Shoma Wetsa to survive her cannibalism, protected by his father, and the hero who at last destroys her by fire.: Melatti, J. C. 1985. A origem dos brancos no mito de Shoma Wetsa. Anuário Antropológico 84. Brasília: Editora UnB. (primary)