Other Gods or Important Figures
- Angatupry, spirit or personification of good, opposite to Tau
- Pytajovái, god of war
- Pombero, a popular spirit of mischief
- Abaangui, a god credited with the creation of the moon; may only figure as an adaptation of outlying Guaraní tribes
- Jurupari, a god limited to worship by men, generally limited to isolated tribes in Brazil
- Yande Yari, "our grandmother", spirit of the river Parapetí in Bolivia
- Mala Visión, According to one version of the legend, Mala Vision was a beautiful woman maddened by jealousy, that one night she murdered her husband and dumped his body in a cave by covering it with burning coals to cremate his body totally believing that he was maintaining relationships with other women. On the seventh night after the event, with lightning, throwing sparks, the corpse of her husband stood before the woman who dropped dead of fright. Since that day the lost soul of the woman goes through canyons and hills on stormy nights, crying plaintive and eerie. Mala vision is presented as the spirit of a beautiful woman dressed in white, tall and deformed shrouded in transparent fuming.
Mala vision skills has features, from the bosom of darkness, one of which is fine screaming, pounding and intermittent that propagate through the night, by way of a long echo, to frighten mortals who dare bother bad hours the spirits of darkness. If a night owl and mortal dared to respond to the awful voice of Mala Vision with another cry, this immediately, no runs, but goes to his answering machine, if the passer again answer his cry a second time, she approaches her screaming, and if the traveler repeated a third time answering the same cry, the spirit of the evening is zigzag, devours the victim's skull with his teeth and sucks your brain, which it feeds. Their victims are silent or mentally disturbed, and the worst dead from fright. For exorcism is needed holy water, accompanied by a Via Crucis.
- Plata Yvyguy, "Buried Treasure", a headless dog who can be found running around through the forest, and if you follow him, he will show you where to find buried treasure.
Read more about this topic: Guarani Mythology
Famous quotes containing the words gods, important and/or figures:
“They said they were an-hungry; sighed forth proverbs—
That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat,
That meat was made for mouths, that the gods sent not
Corn for the rich men only.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“It may be tempting to focus on the fact that, even among those who support equality, men’s involvement as fathers remains a far distance from what most women want and most children need. Yet it is also important to acknowledge how far and how fast many men have moved towards a pattern that not long ago virtually all men considered anathema.”
—Katherine Gerson (20th century)
“Families suffered badly under industrialization, but they survived, and the lives of men, women, and children improved. Children, once marginal and exploited figures, have moved to a position of greater protection and respect,... The historic decline in the overall death rates for children is an astonishing social fact, notwithstanding the disgraceful infant mortality figures for the poor and minorities. Like the decline in death from childbirth for women, this is a stunning achievement.”
—Joseph Featherstone (20th century)