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Nyami Abe
Nyami Abe is a name associated with a supposed South American water being, usually presented in modern English-language accounts as a large serpent or aquatic monster. Its identity is uncertain, however. Unlike well-atte…
Oculate Being
Oculate Being is a modern descriptive name for an enigmatic supernatural figure or iconographic type associated mainly with the ancient Chavín religious tradition of the central Andes. The term refers to representations …
Omame
Omame is a name associated with Omama, a creator and culture hero in Yanomami religious traditions of the north-western Amazon. The Yanomami live mainly in territories spanning northern Brazil and southern Venezuela. In …
Page Abe
Page Abe is a little-documented figure associated in some modern reference works with the mythology of Arawakan-speaking peoples of northern South America. The name is often presented as that of a creator or supreme deit…
Pamuri Mahse
Pamuri Mahse is a name associated with the ancestral beings and origin traditions of Indigenous peoples in the north-western Amazon, especially communities of the Vaupés River region in present-day Colombia and Brazil. T…
Pariacaca
Pariacaca is a major deity in the religious traditions of the Huarochirí region of the central Peruvian Andes. He is especially well known from the Huarochirí Manuscript, a Quechua-language collection of Indigenous tradi…
Periboriwa
Periboriwa is an obscure name associated in some modern compilations with South American, especially Brazilian or Amazonian, folklore. Its identity is uncertain. Unlike well-attested figures such as the Curupira, Boitatá…
Pihuechenyi
Pihuechenyi is a frightening flying creature associated with Mapuche and wider Chilean folklore. It is commonly described as a nocturnal, blood-drinking being that inhabits remote forests, caves or other secluded places.…
Pillan
Pillan (also written Pillán, Pillan or Pu-pillan in some contexts) is a powerful spiritual figure, or class of spiritual beings, in the religious traditions of the Mapuche people of south-central Chile and western Argent…
Saracura
Saracura is a name used in Brazil for several marsh- and forest-dwelling rails, and in regional folklore for the mysterious bird whose loud call is associated with rain, wetlands and hidden water. It is not a single, uni…
Sigu
Sigu is an obscure and uncertain name associated in some modern references with South American mythology. Unlike well-documented figures such as the Guaraní Pombero, the Andean Supay or the Mapuche Pillán, Sigu does not …