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Some Kogi models of the beyond
Journal of Latin American lore • 10 (1) • Published In 1984 • Pages: 63-85
By: Reichel-Dolmatoff, Gerardo.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article is a comprehensive discussion of the Kogi cosmology and theological system based on interviews with several Kogi native priests. The text is replete with diagrams of various versions of Kogi cosmology, all of which have implication for serious thinking regarding the soul's journey after death. The Kogi regard death as another life in which the soul wanders within a supernatural realm, ultimately seeking reunion with the Great Mother. The success of this quest depends on the state of purification of the person at death and to the ability of priests to guide the soul when presiding over death rituals. Reichel-Dolmatoff relates the complexity of Kogi cosmology to the difficulty of the soul's wanderings, both of which reflect the ambiguity surrounding the question of what constitutes a moral life.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Architecture
- Ethics
- Cosmology
- Eschatology
- Purification and atonement
- Priesthood
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Kogi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- South America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Northwestern South America
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1996
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not specified
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia
- NotesAdditional notes
- G. Reichel-Dolmatoff
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 85)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75648807
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Kagaba Indians