La «caída» de los dioses y la dulcificación del mar: secuelas de otra mirada sobre la arquitectura del cosmos (MBYÁ)-Guaraní
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https://doi.org/10.3989/revindias.2004.i230.413Keywords:
Guarani-Mbyá, cosmology, ritual, Land without EvilAbstract
The aim of this paper is to analyse the causes of contradiction between the horizontal conception of the cosmos sustained by some of the mbyá-guaraní of Misiones (Argentina) with most others versions of the guaraní literature that postulate mixed vertical / horizontal configurations. Also, to analyse the reasons by which the ethnographers consider the aquatic obstacle to reach the landwithout- evil is a sea instead of a river. For these purposes, are presented a synthesis of the mbyá conception of the cosmos and its representation in rituals, an analysis of some words and central concepts considered in different works, and some evidences of a certain degree of ethnocentric intromissions and acriticism which affect the analysis and interpretation about cosmological dimension, and even some translations.
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