oko sohe
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Barasana[edit]
Etymology[edit]
oko (“water”) + sohe (“door”), so called because the Milky Way (considered a river in Barasana cosmology) meets the horizon in the east.
Noun[edit]
- the east
References[edit]
- 1982, Hugh-Jones, Barasana Cosmology, in Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics: oko sohe "the east (literally: the water door)"