Sun
Shipibo · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Shipibo-Conibo (Ucayali, Peru). English 'Sun' leads; Shipibo term Bari. Sex is male in Shipibo usage ('Father Sun'), paired with 'Mother Moon'. Treated as a celestial deity. The Sun and Moon inhabit Jakon Nete, the topmost luminous world.
Domains
- sun
- celestial good world
Powers
- ripen the world with heat
Epithets
- Bari The Sun, who measures the day and ripens the forest and the gardensShipibo-Conibo ethnography (secondary)
Sources
- Bari is the Sun, who with the Moon and the morning star belongs to the celestial good-world (Jakon Nete) where the worthy dead go.: Roe, Peter G. (1982). The Cosmic Zygote. Rutgers University Press, pp. 124-130. (secondary)
- In Shipibo thought the Sun (or his avatar) is the benevolent 'culture donor' who provides fire and cultigens.: Roe, Peter G. (1988). 'The Josho Nahuanbo Are All Wet and Undercooked.' In J. Hill (ed.), Rethinking History and Myth. University of Illinois Press. (secondary)