Moon
Toba · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Toba/Qom (Gran Chaco). English 'Moon' leads. Treated as a celestial deity. Sex female in the western-Formosa Toba tradition (Moon-and-femininity). Native term not securely attested in the consulted sources, so term left empty.
Domains
- moon
- menstruation and femininity
Powers
- govern the rhythms of women
Sources
- The Moon is an anthropomorphic celestial being in Toba cosmogony; among western-Formosa Toba the Moon is strongly associated with femininity and the menstrual cycle.: Métraux, Alfred (1946). Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society 40. (secondary); Tola, Florencia C. 'La luna y la feminidad entre los tobas del oeste formoseño (Gran Chaco, Argentina)'. (secondary)