"Everything has life and speaks. A brief reflection on the elements of the territory, the world, and human beings from the Bora cosmogonic perspective."

Abstract

This paper analyzes fragments and terms of the Bora language recorded in the Bora tale entitled Llíjchurɨ, is a mythological being of the Bora culture, whose father is devoured by the subjects of Iámé Niimúhe, against whom he seeks revenge.
However, the quest for revenge leads this being, known in Spanish as the Pucunero, to devour, firstly, his mother’s family, and later his own mother, of animal ancestry,
becoming Úúpíyí Aabájaábe, an entity that walks through a world with no fixed
direction, interacting with elements and animals of nature, who dialogue with him using their own ways of speaking the Bora language, in some cases, and their own language, in others. According to the story, human beings must learn the languages of these territorial beings in order to use them to this day, which reveals an indigenous cosmosemiotics and a dialogic poetics of cosmic scope