No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
Thanks to eurocentrism and christian bias from historians who have depicted these people, it's difficult to be precize about what the historic role of shamans, since narrations often came with pejorative words, in line with the moral standards of the Spanish Empire, who considered many of their traits as demonized perversions and paganism. |
Thanks to eurocentrism and christian bias from historians who have depicted these people, it's difficult to be precize about what the historic role of shamans, since narrations often came with pejorative words, in line with the moral standards of the Spanish Empire, who considered many of their traits as demonized perversions and paganism. |
||
<br /> |
|||
No obtstante, debido al eurocentrismo y sesgo religioso de los historiadores que registraron a estos personajes, es difícil de precisar con exactitud las conductas de los chamanes, debido a que las narraciones iban siempre acompañadas con descalificativos de acorde a la moral del Imperio español, quienes consideraban muchas de ellas como perversiones demonizadas y actos paganos |
|||
[[Category:Exclusive Identities]] |
[[Category:Exclusive Identities]] |
||
[[Category:Sexuality]] |
[[Category:Sexuality]] |
Revision as of 05:31, 28 July 2021
Weye, hueye or weyun is a word in the mapudungun language to describe homosexual men and possibly transfeminine and non-binary people in Mapuche culture.
In traditional Mapuche culture, homosexual behaviour between men isn't considered taboo, and the words weye and weyun don't have a pejorative connotation. Another word for gay in this language is "malleo". [1]
History
Since ancient times, weyes could take the role of a machi, a shaman that could transit between male, female and cogendered identities. In Mapuche culture, gender exists within two realms, the earth in which gender is fixed, and the spiritual where gender is fluid. Machis are able to flow between both worlds.
Thanks to eurocentrism and christian bias from historians who have depicted these people, it's difficult to be precize about what the historic role of shamans, since narrations often came with pejorative words, in line with the moral standards of the Spanish Empire, who considered many of their traits as demonized perversions and paganism.