Abora

Abora

Abora

Ancestral solar deity of La Palma

For the river of West Asia, see Khabur (Euphrates).

Abora is the name of an ancestral solar deity of La Palma (Canary Islands) and a traditional god of the Guanches.

Supreme being

Abora (Ibru[1]) is the name of the supreme being of the religion of the Guanches on the island of La Palma.[2][3] In Guanche mythology of the island of Tenerife, the supreme god was called Achamán.

Uses of the name

  • Reed boats Abora of the German explorer Dominique Görlitz

References

  1. [1]
    Garrison Brinton, Daniel (1901). Races and Peoples: Lectures on the Science of Ethnography. D. McKay. pp. 122.
  2. [2]
    Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Guanches" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 650–651.
  3. [3]
    William Brown Hodgson (1844). Notes on Northern Africa, the Sahara and Soudan: In Relation to the Ethnography, Languages, History, Political and Social Condition, of the Nations of Those Countries. Wiley and Putnam. pp. 104–.


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