Adaheli

Adaheli was the personification of the sun in the Carib mythology of the Orinoco region of South America.[1][2]

For the heliophysics project, see ADAHELI.

This sun god is referred to in an origin story collected in the early 20th century by Cornelius van Coll, a missionary in Suriname.[3]: 268 

Adaheli was troubled by the fact that there were no people on Earth, and so he descended to earth to create them. Shortly thereafter, people first appeared, born from the caiman. All of the original women were quite beautiful. However, some of the men were so ugly that the others found them to be literally intolerable. This led to the separation of the original people, with the ugly men going to the east with their wives and the others going to the west with their wives.[3]

References
  1. Mercatante, Anthony S. (2009). The Facts on File encyclopedia of world mythology and legend. Internet Archive. New York : Facts On File. ISBN 978-0-8160-7311-5.
  2. Dixon-Kennedy, Mike (1996). Native American myth & legend : an A-Z of people and places. Internet Archive. London : Blandford. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-7137-2623-7.
  3. See The Mythology of All Races, Vol. XI, p. 262 (1920)


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