Chikón Nangui

Chikón Nangui — 'the fair lord of the earth' (nangui, Mother Earth) — is, in the Cañada Mazatec tradition documented by the UNAM dictionary of traditional medicine, the owner of the animals, plants and all earthly things and the leader of the chikones, the lesser earth-owners who each hold a particular hill, cave, stream or ceiba. He is pictured as a wealthy man with white hair and fine clothing, or as a fair-haired child, and is syncretised with Saint George (San Jorge). Like all the chikon he is said to have lived openly upon the earth before light existed and to have withdrawn beneath its surface when humans were created. Though styled an owner of the earth in his own right, he is ranked among the company of earth-lords under the supreme Chikón Tokoxo of Nindo Tokoxo.

Domains

• the earth
• wild animals and plants

Powers

• to own and dispose of the wild animals and plants of the earth
• to lead the lesser chikones who own particular places

Epithets

• Chikón NanguiDiccionario Enciclopédico de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana (UNAM), s.v. 'Chikón Nangui': 'owner of the earth' (secondary)

Relations

• subordinate to: Chikón TokoxoChikón Nangui owns the earth and leads the company of place-owning chikones, but is himself reckoned among the earth-owners subject to the paramount lord of Nindo Tokoxo.Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana (UNAM), s.v. 'Chikón Nangui': the chikones, including Chikón Nangui, are under the authority of Chikón Tokoxo (secondary)

Sources

• Chikón Nangui, 'owner of the earth', is the Mazatec lord of the animals, plants and all earthly things and leader of the lesser chikones, appearing as a rich fair-haired man or a blonde child and syncretised with Saint George, himself subject to Chikón Tokoxo.: Diccionario Enciclopédico de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana (UNAM), s.v. 'Chikón Nangui' (secondary); Carlos Incháustegui, 'Entorno enemigo: los mazatecos y sus sobrenaturales', Desacatos 5 (2000): 131-146 (secondary)