Wichí · deity · Wichí traditional religion; continuing · deity
Among the Wichí the Sun is a personified heavenly being rather than an abstract force, appearing in narrative as the father whose daughter is courted by Woodpecker in the widely told cycle of Woodpecker and the Daughter of the Sun. The Wichí term fwala covers both 'day' and the sun. With the Moon, the Sun forms one of the two great luminaries of Chaco celestial myth, and the pair are recurrently linked as kin in Matako tradition.