South American Creatures

South American mythology and folklore extend from Andean highlands to Amazonian forests, coastal deserts, and the Southern Cone. Stories move along riverways, mountain roads, and caravan crossings that connect valleys to ports. Sources include oral traditions, archaeology, early chronicles, mission archives, and modern ethnography. Cards provide transliteration notes for major language families and colonial orthographies in Spanish and Portuguese. Themes include mountain guardianship, reciprocity, pilgrimage, and the meeting of Indigenous practice with Christianity. Tiles allow browsing by region, habitat, or festival calendar, then entries link to sources, iconography, and keywords.