Rain Bringer
Taíno · deity · mythic perennial · Recorded classification
Male weather-deity/zemi. His twin Márohu (bringer of cloudless skies and sun) is the complementary figure; their mother is Iguanaboina, the grey serpent of the rains. Documented directly by Pané.
Domains
- rain
Powers
- weep the rains down onto the fields
Relations
- twin sibling: Bringer of Clear SkiesReciprocal of taino_marohu.twin sibling (alphabetical family sweep). (auto reciprocal)
Sources
- Boinayel is the Taíno rain-bringing zemi, twin of the clear-sky spirit Márohu, both born of the serpent-mother Iguanaboina, and kept as cave-zemis invoked against drought.: Pané, Ramón. Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios, c. 1498, ch. 25. (primary); Stevens-Arroyo, Antonio M. Cave of the Jagua, 1988. (secondary)