Cougar Trickster (Mapuche)

trickster · Chile · South America

Not independently attested as a figure of Mapuche tradition. The puma (pangui, trapial) is genuinely significant as a sacred animal in Mapuche culture, but no source records a 'cougar trickster' called trapial wekufe who assisted the sun during creation; Antu is the Mapuche sun, not a creation hero. The trickster role is invented rather than drawn from Mapuche oral tradition.

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