Kalku or Calcu, in Chilean folklore and the Mapuche mythology, is a sorcerer or shaman, usually but not necessarily an evil one. Chile, officially the Republic of Chile ( Spanish:) is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow Coastal strip wedged between the The beliefs of the Mapuche and their mythology stories about to the world and creatures born of the extensive and old religious beliefs next to a series of common legend and myths that A magician is a person skilled in the mysterious and hidden art of magic, the ability to attain objectives acquire knowledge or perform works of wonder using Supernatural The essentially benevolent shamans are more often referred to as machi, to avoid confusion with the malevolent sorcerer. A machi is a Shaman or (usually a good Witch in the Mapuche culture of South America; and is also an important character and the Mapuche Its origins are in Mapuche tradition. The Mapuche are the indigenous inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina.
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The kalku is a sorcerer or shaman that has the power of working with wekufe "spirits or wicked creatures". The wekufe (from Mapudungun wekufü "demon outside being" is an important type of harmful Spirit or demon in Mapuche mythology. An example of a wekufe is the Nguruvilu. The Nguruvilu "fox snake" ( also Guirivilo Guruvilu Ñuruvilu Ñirivilu Ñivivilu Ñirivilo o Nirivilo; from Mapudungun ngürü "fox" The kalku also have as servants other beings such as the Anchimallén or the Chonchon, which is the magical manifestation of the more powerful kalku. For other uses see Chonchon (disambiguation The Chonchon, (of the language Mapudungun and Spanish Chonchón is a creature (considered a mythical
A mapuche kalkukk is usually an inherited role, although it could be a machi that is interested in lucrative ends, or a "less powerful", frustrated machi who ignores the laws of the admapu (the rules of the Mapuches).
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References
- Alberto Trivero (1999), Trentrenfilú, (in Spanish). Cacique or Cazique (female form Cacica) from the Taíno word for the Pre-Columbian tribal chiefs or leaders, of the Taino A machi is a Shaman or (usually a good Witch in the Mapuche culture of South America; and is also an important character and the Mapuche Proyecto de Documentación Ñuke Mapu.
- http://www.mapuche.info/mapuint/Moylan990400.html
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