Yosoper
Yanesha · deity · Yanesha traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Yosoper is the classificatory brother and dark counterpart of the creator Yatoʼ Yos. Where the elder brother fashioned humans, useful plants, game animals and everything good, Yosoper, envious and attempting to emulate him, brought forth instead the harmful, dangerous and evil things of the world. The paired brothers embody the Yanesha understanding that good and ill spring from a single creative act imperfectly doubled, and Yosoper stands as the ultimate source of the malignant beings that afflict the living.
Domains
- imperfect creation
Powers
- creates evil and harmful beings in failed imitation
Relations
- sibling: Yatoʼ YosFernando Santos-Granero, The Power of Love, 1991 (secondary)
Sources
- Yosoper, the classificatory brother of the creator Yatoʼ Yos, is said to have made all that is bad and evil in the world in a failed attempt to imitate his elder brother's creation.: Fernando Santos-Granero, The Power of Love, Athlone Press, 1991 (secondary)