oko sohe

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Barasana

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Etymology

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oko (water) +‎ sohe (door), so called because the Milky Way (considered a river in Barasana cosmology) meets the horizon in the east.

Noun

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oko sohe

  1. the east

References

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  • 1982, Hugh-Jones, Barasana Cosmology, in Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics: oko sohe "the east (literally: the water door)"