oko sohe

Barasana

Etymology

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

Noun

oko sohe

1. the east

References

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