Adaheli

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Adaheli was the personification of the sun in the Kalina mythology of the Orinoco region of South America. He was troubled by the fact that there were no people on Earth, and so he descended to earth to create them.

When

First attested
1900 CE
Attested period
1900 – 1900
Historical notes
Documented by Cornelius van Coll in the early 20th century.

Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“Adaheli was the personification of the sun in the Kalina mythology of the Orinoco region of South America. This sun god is referred to in an origin story collected in the early 20th century by Cornelius van Coll, a missionary in Suriname.”

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