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South American mythology
Articles about South American mythology within South America & Caribbean.
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Boraro
Boraro is a frightening forest being associated chiefly with Indigenous traditions of the north-western Amazon, especially the cultural region around the Vaupés River in present-day Colombia and Brazil. It is commonly de…
Ceucy
Ceucy, also written Ceuci or Ceucí in different accounts, is a little-documented female figure associated with the traditions surrounding Jurupari in the Indigenous cultures of the Upper Amazon. She is most often describ…
Cherruves
Cherruves is a name used for a fiery supernatural being associated primarily with Mapuche tradition in south-central Chile and adjoining parts of Argentina. The singular form is more commonly written cherufe, cherufé, or…
Chia
Chía is a lunar figure associated with the Muisca, or Muysca, peoples of the highlands of what is now central Colombia. In most modern descriptions, she is identified as a goddess or personification of the Moon, often pl…
Chibchacum
Chibchacum is a deity of the Muisca, an Indigenous people of the Andean highlands of present-day Colombia. In accounts recorded during the Spanish colonial period, he appears as a powerful protector associated with the p…
Chiminigagua
Chiminigagua is a creator figure in the traditional religious worldview of the Muisca, an Indigenous people of the northern Andes whose historical homeland lay mainly on the high plateau of present-day central Colombia. …
Chonchon
Chonchon is a supernatural being associated chiefly with Mapuche and Chilean folklore. It is commonly described as a human head that separates from the body and flies through the night, using enlarged ears as wings. In m…
Colo Colo
Colo Colo is a frightening being associated with the mythology and rural folklore of Chile, especially traditions connected with the Mapuche cultural area. Its description is not uniform: in some accounts it resembles a …
Cuchavira
Cuchavira is a figure associated with the rainbow in the religious traditions of the Muisca, also called the Muysca, an Indigenous people of the Andean highlands of present-day Colombia. She is commonly described as a fe…
El Dorado
El Dorado is one of the most famous legends associated with South America, but it was not originally the name of a golden city. The earliest form of the story concerned a “gilded man” or ruler connected with the Muisca p…
El-lal
El-lal, also written Elal or with other spelling variations, is a major mythic figure in the traditions of the Tehuelche peoples of Patagonia. He is especially associated with the Aónikenk, the southern Tehuelche-speakin…