Adaheli

{{Short description|Personification of the sun in Kalina mythology}} {{for|the heliophysics project|ADAHELI}}

'''Adaheli''' was the personification of the sun in the Kalina mythology of the Orinoco region of South America.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Mercatante|first=Anthony S.|url=http://archive.org/details/factsonfileencyc0002merc|title=The Facts on File encyclopedia of world mythology and legend|date=2009|publisher=New York : Facts On File|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-8160-7311-5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Dixon-Kennedy|first=Mike|url=http://archive.org/details/nativeamericanmy00mike|title=Native American myth & legend : an A-Z of people and places|date=1996|publisher=London : Blandford|others=Internet Archive|isbn=978-0-7137-2623-7|pages=76}}</ref>

This sun god is referred to in an origin story collected in the early 20th century by {{ill|Cornelius van Coll|nl|Cornelius van Coll}}, a missionary in Suriname.<ref name=":0" />{{Rp|268}}

In the story, 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. The others, on the other hand, found some of the men to be downright intolerable because of their appearance. The ugly men moved to the east with their wives, while the others moved to the west with their wives, which caused the original people to split up.<ref name=":0">See ''The Mythology of All Races'', [https://books.google.com/books?id=mW_vphxc3CwC&dq=mythology+all+races+latin+america+adaheli&pg=PA262 Vol. XI, p. 262] (1920)</ref>

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Category:South American deities Category:Solar gods Category:Kalina