Juziñamui
Uitoto · deity · Uitoto traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Juziñamui is the supreme deity of Uitoto religion, understood as another name of the primordial Father and, in many tellings, identified with Nainuema. He is the universal consciousness that creates by visualizing what is possible and by uttering the Word (rafue), the ordering breath at the root of ritual speech, song, and dance. He is associated with the celestial and solar order and acts as guarantor and punisher of cosmic law. In the deeds of Buinaima he is the Supreme God whom the water being invokes, and in fire-origin narratives he figures among the beings who once held fire before it was brought to humankind.
Domains
- creation
- sky
- justice
Powers
- creates by visualizing what is possible
- punishes transgressors of cosmic order
Epithets
- Moma — the FatherUrbina Rangel, Fernando. 2010. Las palabras del origen. Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia. (secondary)
Relations
- ally: BuinaimaBuinaima invokes Juziñamui as the Supreme God in the deeds attributed to him.'El Diluvio y las Hazañas de Buinaima'. mitosdecolombia.com. (secondary)
Sources
- Juziñamui is a name of the supreme Father, the creator who fashions the world by visualizing it and the source of the generative Word.: Urbina Rangel, Fernando. 2010. Las palabras del origen: breve compendio de la mitología de los uitotos. Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia. (secondary); Candre Yamakuri, Hipólito & Juan Álvaro Echeverri. 2015. 'Historia de los Huérfanos del Sol'. Mundo Amazónico 6(1). (primary)