Yompor Ror

Yanesha · deity · Yanesha traditional religion; continuing · deity

Yompor Ror, 'Our Father Flower,' is the reigning sun of the current world and the central figure of Yanesha sacred geography. His mother conceived him after a flower sent by the supreme divinity Yatoʼ Yos fell upon her, and his cycle of myths is set at the end of the second of the three eras into which the Yanesha divide time. Coming from the lower Palcazu, he travelled up the Cacazu River to the valley of Enenas, transforming the beings he encountered into the stones, animals and plants of the present world; the landmarks he left behind still demarcate Yanesha territory. At Enenas he learned that Yompor Huar, a boy he had reared, had lain with his wife Yachor Coc; enraged, he dismembered her and scattered her body, from which grew the coca the Yanesha chew. He then ascended to the heavens to shine as the benevolent sun, succeeding the cruel earlier solar divinity. His festivals, centered on the worship of the sun, were the great celebrations of the traditional priesthood.

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