page_title: Pemon
section_title: Myths
hierarchical_section_title: Pemon / Myths
caption_attribution_description: English: The Pemon are an Amerindian tribe living in areas of Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana.
context_page_description: The Pemon or Pemón are indigenous people living in areas of Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana. They are also known as Arecuna, Aricuna Jaricuna, Kamarakoto, and Taurepang.
context_section_description: The Pemon have a very rich mythic tradition which is merged into their present Christian faiths. Pemon mythology includes gods residing in the grassland area's table-top mountains called tepui.   The mountains are off-limits to the living, as they are also home to ancestor spirits called mawari. The first non-native person to seriously study Pemon myths and language was the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grunberg, who visited Roraima in 1912.
  Important myths describe the origins of the sun and moon, the creation of the tepui mountains — which dramatically rise from the savannahs of the Gran Sabana — and the activities of the creator hero Makunaima and his brothers.
caption: Three Pemon youths
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