I5B. Thunder Jaguar .65.67.
A flying jaguar causes storms, rain, thunderstorms.
Quechua and Aymara in the Andes mountain regions (center and south of Peru, mountainous Bolivia), siriono, tacana.
The Central Andes. Central and southern regions [(generalized version): Koa (Koacha, Titi, etc.) is a feline predator flying in clouds near springs, from whose eyes lightning flies; he It also produces thunder and rainbows, rain is its urine]: Kauffmann Doig 1991:1.
Bolivia - Guaporé. Siriono: Holmberg 1969 [there are three explanations for thunder and lightning; 1) A month throws bakers and jaguars from the sky; 2) Bamboo pulls across the sky for a month; 3) when the heavenly jaguar Yakwadusu blinks, sparkles lightning, thunder when shaken off]: 119; Lunardi 1938 [Amêy's main deity, "grandfather", is associated with thunderstorm and rain, rain is his tears; lightning gives an angry look, thunder is someone punishes]: 206; takana [a man lived in the forest, wanted to meet his daughter Buturu; she ran to the house of old woman Eaua Quinahi ("keeper of the earth"); she hid her under a large stone; when her father ran, promised to send him to the ends of the earth, where it is good to live; to do this, to become a winged jaguar ("top jaguar", i.e. the upper world); (describes in detail the process of transformation, to a man leaves, pieces of snake skin are attached); he must fly to a place where it is hot and damp; two people will call him there, we must help them prop up the ground; the old woman poured land on him and he flew away growling; if he if the world gets tired or dies, the world will end; when it rises, the day on earth when it falls is night; the old woman released B. from under the stone and she also agreed to become a flying jaguar; she must fly to north, take water on your wings, come back and pour water (from December to April); in May-August, the wings will dry, then you have to fly south, come back with water and shed again on the ground (September-November); When it snarls in September-October, there will be snow and hail in the mountains]: Hissink, Hahn 1961, No. 208:333-335.