Yompor Yompere
Yanesha · deity · Yanesha traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Yompor Yompere is one of the elder brother-divinities of the sun Yompor Ror. When Ror set out for the place from which he would rise into the sky, his elder brothers Yompere, Yompuer and Etetar went ahead with their sisters-wives. Reaching the stream now called Opanmaso, Yompere paused with his wife Yachor Mamas to rest and wait for his younger brother, and there he turned to stone. At the sanctuary that bears his name near Tsachopen in the Oxapampa district, three great rocks are venerated as Yompere, his wife and his brother, with smaller stones as their children; the community continues to hold rites of gratitude there, making him a living focus of Yanesha devotion.
Domains
- petrifaction
- sacred site
Powers
- halts and turns to stone with his household
Relations
- sibling: Yompor RorFernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' 1998, on Yompere as elder brother of Ror (secondary)
- spouse: Yachor MamasFernando Santos-Granero, The Power of Love, 1991, on the pair Yompere/Mamas as siblings and spouses (secondary)
Sources
- Yompor Yompere is an elder brother of the sun Yompor Ror who, preceding Ror toward the place of ascent, stopped with his sister-wife Yachor Mamas at the stream Opanmaso and was petrified; at his sanctuary near Tsachopen three rocks represent him, his wife and his brother.: Fernando Santos-Granero, 'Writing History into the Landscape,' American Ethnologist 25(2), 1998 (secondary); Guia Etnografica de la Alta Amazonia, Vol. IV: Los Yanesha, IFEA (secondary)