Tupã (mythology)  Tupã (also "Tupave" or "Tenondete") is the word for God in the Guarani language, including the Guarani creation myth. Tupã is considered to be the creator of the universe, and more specifically the creator of light. His residence is the Sun. According to Daniel H. Candido and Lucí H. Nunes of the University of Campinas Tupã was "not exactly a god, but rather a manifestation of" god, "in the form of thunder", and that the Jesuit evangelizers of the time would have mistranslated it as an actual divinity. The god in question would be Nhanderuvuçu, cited as the Tupi-Guarani supreme deity, with "Tupã" being mentioned only as a term for the phenomenon of lightning and thunder, described at different times as a "messenger" and "demon", while the term "Nhanderuete" would be more fitting as a comparison to the Christian god. Câmara Cascudo has spoken about Tupã being a "work of adaptation of catechism, that already existed in concept for the Amerindians, but as the "sound of thunder" ("tu-pá" or "tu-pã"), an unknown (and therefore feared) phenomenon. Osvaldo Orico was of the opinion that "the supreme being's voice was heard in storms", as "tupã-cinunga", "the thunder", whose reflection was "tupãberaba", "the lightning". Before the creation of the human race, Țupa wedded the goddess Arasy, the mother of the sky whose home was the Moon. According to the myth, Țupa and Arasy descended upon the Earth one morning after their wedding, and together they created the rivers and the seas, the forests, the stars and all the living beings of the universe. It is said that the location they stood while creating these things was atop a hill in Areguá, a small city in Paraguay near the capital of Asunción. Țupa and Arasy met through a constellation of stars, and it took them years to find one another. After the creation of all the things in the earth, Țupa set to creating the first human couple on the earth. For his creation, Țupa used a mixture of clay, juice extracted from yerba mate, blood from the Short-tailed Nighthawk, the leaves of several kinds of plants, and finally a centipede.