Warao · quartigod · Warao traditional religion; continuing · quartigod
Uraro is the toad-god who holds the southern quarter of the Warao world from his cardinal mountain, his realm stretching between the rising and setting of the winter-solstice sun. Wilbert records that the Warao reckon the god of the south the most powerful of the four world-quarter gods; lesser spirits in his service may be lodged in quartz pebbles carried by shamans in a calabash pouch. He is one of the four kanobotuma who hold up the bell-shaped sky beneath the supreme grandfather Kanobo.
Domains
south world quarter
winter solstice and storms
Powers
to hold up the southern quarter of the sky from his cardinal mountain
to lodge his minor attendant spirits in quartz pebbles carried by shamans
Johannes Wilbert, Mystic Endowment: Religious Ethnography of the Warao Indians (Harvard University, Center for the Study of World Religions, 1993).
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).