Talk:Cuyen

Cuyen (Mapuche world)
Cuyen is the moon goddess in Mapuche legends (mythology), wife of creator and sun god Nguenechen.

In the Mapuche legends moon goddess Cuyen has got no power but is helpless in several situations crying about what is doing her husband, sun god and main creator Nguenechen. Therefore Cuyen is crying sometimes and their tears are producing some of the lakes in the mountains of today's Argentina as e.g. Lacar lake and Lolog lake in the deluge legend of the two snakes Trentren and Caycay.

Sources


 * Diccionario Mapuche (mapuche-español / español-mapuche; personajes de la mitología, toponimia indígena de Patagonia, nombres poropios del pueblo Mapuche, leyendas; texts by María Espósito; Guadal S.A. 2003, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ISBN 987-1134-51-7, p.256 ff.

Michael Palomino, 18 January 2011

Michael.palomino-at-gmx.ch (talk) 14:01, 18 January 2011 (UTC)