Yompor Ror

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.

Domains

• sun
• transformation
• territory

Powers

• turns beings into stone, animals and plants
• rises into the sky to become the present sun

Epithets

• Yompor Ror — Our Father FlowerFernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' American Ethnologist 25(2), 1998 (secondary)

Relations

• sibling: Yompor YompereFernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' 1998, on Ror and his elder brothers Yompere, Yompuer and Etetar (secondary)
• twin: Yachor ArrorrFernando Santos-Granero, The Power of Love, 1991, on the pair Ror/Arrorr as siblings and spouses (secondary)
• spouse: Yachor ArrorrFernando Santos-Granero, The Power of Love, 1991 (secondary)
• spouse: Yachor CocSources differ on whether Coc was the wife of Ror or of his brother Etetar.Fernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' 1998, on Yachor Coc as the wife of Ror (secondary)
• enemy: Yompor HuarHuar, the boy Ror had reared, betrayed him by seducing his wife.Fernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' 1998 (secondary)
• rival: Yompor RretFernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' 1998, on the succession of solar divinities (secondary)

Sources

• Yompor Ror is the present solar divinity, 'Our Father Flower,' conceived when a flower sent by Yatoʼ Yos impregnated his mother; his wanderings from the lower Palcazu up the Cacazu to the valley of Enenas, his petrifying transformations, his dismemberment of his unfaithful wife, and his ascent to the sky are told in a cycle of myths at the end of the second Yanesha era.: Fernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' American Ethnologist 25(2), 1998 (secondary); Fernando Santos-Granero, The Power of Love, Athlone Press, 1991 (secondary)