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South American mythology
Articles about South American mythology within South America & Caribbean.
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Mani
Mani is a figure associated with an Indigenous Brazilian origin story for manioc, one of the most important food plants of tropical South America. The best-known version tells of a remarkable child whose death and burial…
Marerewana
Marerewana is a name associated in some modern mythological and folklore compilations with South American indigenous tradition. Its identity, however, is unusually uncertain. Unlike well-documented figures such as the Gu…
Meuler
Meuler is a name associated in some modern mythological lists with Mapuche traditions of south-central Chile and adjacent Argentina. The identification is uncertain, however. The form Meuler is not a consistently documen…
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.…