Tiripeme Caheri

Southern brother of the Tiripemencha ('the great Tiripeme'), installed by the Relación as patron god of Pareo. Child of Cuerauáperi (parentId) and brother — not son — of Curicaueri; the colour/direction/war scheme (south = black, noon sun, war-squads) is attributed to the secondary literature.

Parentage

• Cuerauáperi

Domains

• cardinal directions
• war and the hunt

Powers

• Guards the southern direction and the noon sun

Relations

• sibling: Curicaueri
• sibling: Tiripeme
• sibling: Tiripeme Quarencha
• sibling: Tiripeme Turupten
• sibling: Tiripeme Xungápeti

Sources

• Relación de Michoacán (c. 1539–41)
• Helen Perlstein Pollard, Tariácuri's Legacy: The Prehispanic Tarascan State (1993)