Notas para una cartografía oral del cielo entre los tobas del oeste formoseño

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the Toba vision of the sky: celestial objects, asterisms, and those phenomena that, from a native perspective, are significantly related to the sky. This interpretation of the celestial abode is also related to their cosmology, mythology, and social organisation. A key part of this connection is the difference between male celestial beings, which fulfil the life-cycle stages, and female celestial beings, which seem to be crystalized in an unchanging condition.

Keywords

• Gran Chaco
• Ethnoastronomy
• sky
• Toba Indians
• asterisms