Kasibarenini
Matsigenka · numen · Matsigenka traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Kasibarenini is singled out in Matsigenka demonology as the foremost and most dangerous of the kamagarini, the brood of little devils fathered by the counter-creator Kientibakori. Where the kamagarini as a class beset the forest with sickness and misfortune, Kasibarenini is the named and personified worst of them, a demon who takes on human likeness to approach the ailing and the solitary and draw them toward death. He belongs to the world of the tobacco shaman's adversaries, one of the specific malevolent beings the seripigari must recognise and repel in the defence of the sick.
Parentage
- parent: KientibakoriChief among Kientibakori's demonic brood.Johnson, Allen. 2003. Families of the Forest. (secondary)
Domains
- demons
Powers
- deceives and carries off the unwary
Epithets
- Kasibarenini — the worst of the little devilsJohnson, Allen. 2003. Families of the Forest. (secondary)
Relations
- parent: KientibakoriChief among Kientibakori's demonic brood.Johnson, Allen. 2003. Families of the Forest. (secondary)
- sibling: KamagariniReckoned the worst of the kamagarini.Johnson, Allen. 2003. Families of the Forest. (secondary)
Sources
- Kasibarenini is named as the worst of the kamagarini, a demon of Kientibakori who appears in human form to lure the sick and dying.: Johnson, Allen. 2003. Families of the Forest (Berkeley: University of California Press). (secondary); Baer, Gerhard. 1994. Die Religion der Matsigenka, Ost-Peru (Basel: Wepf Verlag). (secondary)