Embera mythology. Main myths, features and functions

Abstract

His text is an anthropological analysis of the main Embera myths, based on research conducted diagnosed since early 2012 in indigenous communities Jawa (river Chorí), Tando and Nuquí up (river Nuquí) and Yucal (river Panguí), Tribugá Gulf region, municipality of Nuquí Pacific coast Chocoana, reinforced by experiences of other research on cosmology in various communities Embera Chocó and Córdoba in the early 1980. Oral tradition, source and basis of the analysis comes from old and elderly, Embera priests, called jaibaná (theologians and natural philosophers), called in some larger communities noko, the principal chiefs (traditional natural leaders, replaced today by governors) and some bilingual teachers. The analysis of this mythology shows the importance of it to monitor social and environmental standards and the current risk found this cosmological body to the Embera and humanity, to the extent that the system is weakened socialization traditions to new generations.