Periboriwë

The Moon, Periboriwë; in the 'Moonblood' myth an ancestor shoots him and the blood that falls to earth becomes the first Yanomami, the fiercest born where the blood lay thickest. His descendants were destroyed in a great flood.

Domains

• moon
• origin of people blood

Powers

• Bleed when shot, his blood becoming the first people

Sources

• Wilbert & Simoneau, Folk Literature of the Yanomami (1990)
• Chagnon, Yanomamö