(American mythology)
Literally, ‘father sun’. Creator deity of the Tukano Indians, who live in the upper reaches of the Amazon, along the Colombian-Brazilian border.
In the beginning, say the Tukano, there were the sun, Page Abe, and the moon, called Nyami Abe or ‘nocturnal sun’. Since Nyami Abe had no wife, he was lonely and tried to force the sun's wife: hearing of it, Page Abe deprived the moon of his feather head-dress and ordered him to keep away from the family. Never again did the sun and the moon share the same quarter of the sky. After this dispute, Page Abe created the earth and placed on it animals, plants, and men. In this work he was aided by a semi-divine being called Pamuri-mahse, but it was the sun's own daughter, Abe Mango, who descended to earth in order to teach the Tukano people how to live well. Her gifts were fire, buildings, pottery, weaving, and cookery.
