Sun

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

Sources

• Roe, Peter G. (1982). The Cosmic Zygote. Rutgers University Press, pp. 124-130.
• Roe, Peter G. (1988). 'The Josho Nahuanbo Are All Wet and Undercooked.' In J. Hill (ed.), Rethinking History and Myth. University of Illinois Press.