Cuerauáperi

Purépecha creator-mother of the gods, goddess of rain and the fertile earth.

Children

• Tiripeme Caheri
• Tiripeme Quarencha
• Tiripeme Turupten
• Tiripeme Xungápeti

Domains

• creation
• rain clouds
• earth fertility

Powers

• Gives birth to all gods, humans, plants and animals
• Sends rain and crops, or withholds them as drought

Epithets

• Cuerauáperi latin · Cuerauaperi · cultThe creator-mother goddess who looses the rains and to whom the harvest returnsRelación de Michoacán (primary)

Relations

• ancestor of: CuricaueriCreator-mother of the gods.Relacion de Michoacan (c. 1540), on Cuerauaperi as creator-mother of the gods (primary)

Sources

• existence: Relación de Michoacán (c. 1539-41) (primary)