Warao · quartigod · Warao traditional religion; continuing · quartigod
Nabarima, whose name means 'Father of the Waves', is the terrestrial god of the northern world-quarter of the Warao cosmos. He is seated on the promontory of Naparima Hill in southern Trinidad, the northern boundary-mountain of the Warao world, in the quarter that the cosmology assigns to the northern ocean and the Butterfly Goddess between the rising and setting of the summer-solstice sun. He is one of the four world-quarter grandfathers (kanobotuma) who hold up the sky beneath the supreme grandfather Kanobo.
Domains
north world quarter
sea and waves
Powers
to hold up the northern quarter of the sky from his cardinal mountain
to father and command the waves of the northern sea
Johannes Wilbert, Warao Cosmology and Yekuana Roundhouse Symbolism, in E. Magaña and P. Mason (eds.), Myth and the Imaginary in the New World (CEDLA / Foris, 1986).
Johannes Wilbert, Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions, 1993).