Putcha Si
Munduruku · numen · Munduruku traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Putcha si is a spirit-mother of the Munduruku hunting cosmos, one of the guardian 'mothers' who watch over the fertility and abundance of game. She both grants and guards: hunters depend on her release of animals, but she exacts vengeance for overhunting and waste by stealing the souls of those who offend, a sanction bound up with the wider Munduruku belief that game returns to the world through its spirit mothers. She belongs to the same order of tutelary beings as the mother of the peccaries, standing behind the balance between the hunt and the renewal of the animals.
Domains
- game fertility
- retribution
Powers
- oversees the fertility of game
- exacts vengeance by stealing souls
Sources
- Putcha si is a Munduruku spirit-mother who oversees game fertility and avenges overhunting through soul-theft.: Grokipedia, 'Munduruku,' cosmology and afterworlds. (secondary); Instituto Socioambiental, 'Munduruku,' Povos Indígenas no Brasil. (secondary)