Yachor Coc
Yanesha · deity · Yanesha traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Yachor Coc, 'Our Mother Coca,' is the divine origin of the coca plant. In the myth cycle of the sun she is the wife of Yompor Ror, though some tellings make her the wife of his brother Etetar. Discovering that she had lain with Yompor Huar, the boy he had raised, Ror in his fury dismembered her and flung the pieces of her body across the land; where they fell there sprang the coca bushes whose leaves the Yanesha chew, so that the plant of ritual and sociality carries the memory of divine betrayal and punishment.
Domains
- coca
Powers
- gives rise to the coca plant from her scattered body
Relations
- spouse: Yompor RorSources differ on whether she was the wife of Ror or of his brother Etetar.Fernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' 1998 (secondary)
- lover: Yompor HuarFernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' 1998, on her affair with the boy Huar (secondary)
Sources
- Yachor Coc, 'Our Mother Coca,' was the wife of the sun Yompor Ror who committed adultery with the boy Yompor Huar; Ror dismembered her and scattered her body, from which the coca plant grew.: Fernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' American Ethnologist 25(2), 1998 (secondary)