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Tau

Guarani Deities

Tau is the personification of evil in Guarani mythology, the dark counterpart to Angatupyry, the spirit of good, in a tradition that frames much of the visible world as the product of a struggle between the two. Guarani myth holds that Tau fathered seven monstrous sons with a woman named Kerana, daughter of Marangatu, though one of the seven, Jasy Jatere, already recorded on this atlas, breaks the pattern by never appearing as a monster.

Facts
Attestation
Veneration Today
Actively venerated in a living tradition 1
Historicity
Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being 1
Function
Domain / Function
Chaos and adversary 1
Identity
Gender
Male 1
Belief
Theology
Polytheistic: many gods 1
Sources
1. The Facts on File Encyclopedia of World Mythology and Legend
Anthony S. Mercatante, revised and expanded by James R. Dow, Facts on File
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