Tupan

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Tupan can mean several things:

  • Another spelling of tapan, a drum used in Balkan and Turkish music
  • The provincial governor in some areas of China in the first half of the 20th Century[1]
  • The thunder god of the Tupi and GuaranĂ­ people of Brazil[2]
  • A volcano on Io named after the god.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, page viii. Cheng and Boorman, 1957, Columbia University Press.
  2. ^ http://www.pantheon.org/articles/t/tupan.html visited August 18 2007