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Nguruvilu
Nguruvilu is a water being associated with Mapuche tradition and with the folklore of southern Chile, especially the island of Chiloé. Its name is commonly explained through Mapudungun elements meaning “fox” and “snake,”…
Huallallo
Huallallo, more fully known as Huallallo Carhuincho or, in some spellings, Wallallo Carhuincho, is a powerful sacred being in the mythology of the central Andes of Peru. He is best known from the Huarochirí Manuscript, a…
Huecuvus
Huecuvus is a name associated with a harmful supernatural being in Mapuche tradition of south-central Chile and western Argentina. It is also written in forms such as Huecuve, Huecuvé, or Huecuvü, depending on the langua…
Huitaca
Huitaca is a female figure associated with the Muisca, or Muysca, people of the Andean highlands of present-day Colombia. Spanish colonial writers described her as a beautiful and rebellious supernatural woman connected …
Iae
Iae is a name associated in some modern mythology lists with South American tradition, but its identity and cultural origin are uncertain. No single, widely recognised indigenous tradition securely establishes Iae as a g…
Jurupari
Jurupari, also written Yuruparí or Yurupary, is a name associated with Indigenous traditions of the north-western Amazon, especially the Upper Rio Negro and the Vaupés region of Brazil and Colombia. The name does not ide…
Kanassa
Kanassa is an obscure and uncertain name associated in some modern catalogues with South American mythology. Unlike widely documented figures such as Inti, Pachamama, Viracocha, or the Mapuche serpent beings, Kanassa doe…
Kasogonaga
Kasogonaga—also written Kasogonagá—is generally described as a rain serpent associated with Guaraní mythology in South America. In the brief accounts that circulate under this name, Kasogonaga is a powerful snake connect…
Kononatoo
Kononatoo is a little-documented name associated in some modern mythological compilations with Indigenous traditions of northern South America. It is usually placed within the broad cultural region of the Guianas and the…
Kuat
Kuat is a name associated with the Sun in mythic traditions of Indigenous peoples in Brazil, especially in accounts connected with the Upper Xingu cultural region. He is often described together with Iae, or a similarly …
Kulimina
Kulimina is an obscure name associated in some modern reference lists with South American mythology, but its traditional identity is uncertain. There is no broadly accepted body of Indigenous stories, historical document…