Thunder
Thunder denotes the voice of the high god heard as anger, assent or presence, a shock that disorients and wakes, and the herald of rain.
Our paraphrase of what the sources say it carries.
At a glance
- Type
- Image
- Group
- Creation and Cosmos / Air — Wind and Weather
- Borne by
- 1 figure
- Traditions
- Guarani mythology (1)
Figures that bear it
A model judged each figure against its own description, one term at a time. Is: the figure is a kind of this thing. Bears: it carries the thing or is marked by it. What a figure does is filed under motifs and powers. Open "why" for the sentence the judgement rests on.
- Tupan is Guarani mythology
why
The Tupi-Guarani thunder demon, squat and wavy-haired, whose name the missionaries took for the Christian God and which now means sacred.