Cosmología Naso
For example, it will become apparent that the verbal art genre such as tjlõ kwo rong ‘profound words’, which is ideologically understood most centrally as an obscure and sacred ancestral code, can be used in a playful and humorous manner (Bermúdez 2018, 3) . 2.4.1 Cosmological planes As Reinaldo Gonzalez describes in the Mythology volume of the Naso Cultural Encyclopedia, Naso cosmology includes eight different hierarchically related layers of spiritual planes, each inhabited by different life forms including plants, animals, and different types of spirits, where these planes mirror the complexity of the local physical ecosystems or habitats (Naso Cultural Encyclopedia, Mythology volume, pg. 255). The logical principle is that specific animals and related species are endogenous to a specific physical place. The cultural importance of this view is reflected in the large amount of 'profound words' that refer to specific place names, such as mountainous dwellings dlupso kjropso...