Ngäbe · deity · Ngäbe traditional religion; continuing · deity
Sö, the Moon, is the twin brother of Ñänä, the Sun, in Ngäbe (Guaymí) tradition. In the creation cycle first recorded in the nineteenth century the two are the children of the creator Noncomala and the water-maiden Rutbe, whose birth ends the darkness of the primal world. In the modern bilingual telling from Potrero de Caña in the Comarca Ngäbe-Buglé, the brothers grow up filthy and ignored in the hearth-ashes of their mother, the singer Evia, and later return as imposing men, the moon-brother dressed all in silver, before taking their places in the sky. Sö is the ordinary Ngäbere word for the moon.
Marian Edwardes & Lewis Spence, A Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology (London: J. M. Dent & Sons / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1912), p. 127, s.v. 'Noncomala'
Roger Séptimo & Luz Graciela Joly Adames, Kugüe kira nie ngäbere / Sucesos antiguos dichos en guaymí (Etnohistoria guaymí) (Panamá: Asociación Panameña de Antropología, 1986), tale 'Ñaglon bata Sö / El Sol y la Luna'
Hartley Burr Alexander, Latin-American Mythology (The Mythology of All Races, vol. XI; Boston: Marshall Jones Company, 1920), chapter on the Isthmian region (Guaymí creation and flood traditions)