oko sohe
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)"