Bison Nature-Spirit of Zapotec

nature-spirit · Mexico · Mesoamerica

Not independently attested in folklore literature. The entry concedes there were no bison in pre-Columbian Oaxaca, then invents a 'pitao of the grasslands.' Zapotec pitao are genuine deities and spirits of nature, but none is a bison figure; the mountain-shrine offering role is fabricated.

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