Asterisms and time cycles: perspectives from Central West Chaco

Abstract

This chapter describes the asterisms which, to date, we have been able to identify in collaboration with the Toba and Wichi Indians of western Formosa Province. In some cases, we also comment on asterisms traced in the specific bibliography. This serves, above all, as the basis for looking into the associations created between some of these objects and cyclical temporality, which has undergone some changes that, in theory, seem to be related to the unequal relationship established with Western society. However, we also expound on how this new way of expressing and even pacing the time cycles draws from the knowledge inherited from the ancients.