Re'yo
Piaroa · numen · Piaroa traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Re'yo is a keeper of the game animals in Piaroa hunting cosmology, the owner who releases or withholds the herds of the forest and who, when slighted, sends sickness upon the careless hunter. Through him the taking of game is bound to a relation of exchange and restraint with the powers that own the animals, a relation the shaman mediates. The name and the degree to which this game-owner is individuated vary considerably across the recorded material, and some tellings fold the mastery of animals into Wahari or into the wild spirit-beings of the Warime rather than naming a distinct keeper.
Domains
- game mastery
Powers
- own the herds of the forest
Epithets
- reyo ruwang — owner of the gameMansutti Rodriguez, A. (2006). Warime: la fiesta. Ciudad Guayana: UNEG. (secondary)
Sources
- Re'yo is the owner or keeper of the game animals whom Piaroa hunters and shamans must treat with for success and to avoid the sickness sent by an offended master of animals.: Mansutti Rodriguez, A. (2006). Warime: la fiesta. Flautas, trompas y poder en el noroeste amazonico. Ciudad Guayana: UNEG. (secondary); Boglar, L. (1978). Cuentos y mitos de los Piaroa. Caracas: Universidad Catolica Andres Bello. (secondary)
- The name and individuation of the game-owner vary in the sources, and some tellings fold the mastery of animals into Wahari or the Warime spirits.: Overing Kaplan, J. (1975). The Piaroa, a People of the Orinoco Basin. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (secondary)