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Huallepen
Huallepen is a little-known aquatic being associated with the mythology and folklore of southern Chile, especially the island of Chiloé and the wider cultural world of the Mapuche and Huilliche peoples. The name appears …
Guecubu
Guecubu is a name found in older European accounts of Mapuche religious tradition for a malevolent supernatural power or spirit. The term is associated with misfortune, illness, death and other forms of harm. It is often…
Guinechen
Guinechen is a name used in some Spanish-language accounts for Ngünechen, a major divine figure in Mapuche religious tradition. The Mapuche, also known as the Mapuche people, are Indigenous inhabitants of south-central C…
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…