Jivec'la, the Moon

Jivec'la, the Moon, measures the months and is linked in Nivaclé thought to women's menstrual cycles. As across much of the Chaco, the moon is imagined as a male figure of appetite whose markings and phases are explained through narrative, its waxing and waning read as recurrent wounding and recovery.

Domains

• moon
• womens cycles

Powers

• measures the months and wanes and waxes

Sources

• Seelwische, José, Diccionario Nivaclé-Castellano (1990).
• Métraux, Alfred, 'Ethnography of the Chaco,' Handbook of South American Indians, vol. 1 (1946).