Stingy Fire-Owner
Shipibo · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Shipibo-Conibo (Ucayali, Peru). English 'Stingy Fire-Owner' leads; the figure is named Yoashiko (also Yoashico) Inca, the mythic Inca/'culture-donor' who, contrary to giving freely, hoarded fire and seed until tricked. yoashi = 'stingy/miserly'. The Inca in Shipibo myth-history is an ambivalent demiurge-like owner of culture goods; treated as a deity-class owner figure rather than a historical ruler.
Domains
- fire
- cultivated plants
Powers
- withhold fire and seed
- hoard fire and the cultivated seed
Sources
- Yoashiko Inca is the stingy fire-and-cultigen owner from whom the Shipibo stole fire; he distributed manioc cuttings with the tips removed and only toasted (sterile) maize.: Valera Vásquez, Elena. 'Cómo los shipibo le quitaron la candela a Yoashiko Inca' (Shipibo oral narrative). (secondary); 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)