Moon

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

• Métraux, Alfred (1946). Myths of the Toba and Pilagá Indians of the Gran Chaco. Memoirs of the American Folklore Society 40.
• Tola, Florencia C. 'La luna y la feminidad entre los tobas del oeste formoseño (Gran Chaco, Argentina)'.