Tupã (mythology)

Tupa (also Tupã, Tupave or Tenondete) is the name of the supreme god in the Guaraní creation myth. Tupa is also the word in the Guaraní language that means "god".^[1] Tupã is considered to be the creator of the universe, and more specifically the creator of light. His residence is the Sun.^[2]

Myths

Marriage

Before the creation of the human race, Tupã wedded the goddess Arasy, the mother of the sky whose home was the Moon. According to the myth, Tupã and Arasy descended upon the Earth one morning after their wedding, and together they created the rivers and the seas, the forests, the stars and all the living beings of the universe. It is said that the location they stood while creating these things was atop a hill in Areguá, a small city in Paraguay near the capital of Asunción.

Tupã and Arasy met through a constellation of stars, and it took them years to find one another.

Personality

Tupã was god of srepeerc, a minion that would explode. In Nolybad - the god's home - he would destroy any humans that came near his god like towns.

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