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Aboriginal culture

Of the analysis of the representations of stamped hands (positive) and of traced hands (negative) he/she thinks about the possibility that they correspond the man the positive ones and to the woman the negative ones, linked to the ceremonial activities of initiation (puberty) respective.
 
It is also necessary to consider or to imagine, etiológicamente that certain recorded prints (as those of representations of hands or look footfalls) they are real marks, impress fossilized, product of mythical events.
 
The deads were buried in position extended in the summit of the hills, covering them with stones (rounded mounds of pircas). These you lie down CHENQUES they called. “Do you knock down in cone form or truncated pyramid” (Aparicio in Nailed Stone, Santa Cruz). Pyramid, on the way to the spirit to the but there, one replies modest of the Egypt...? were they sacrificed the deceased's animal property on their tomb. Another habit enterratorio but primitive and questionable, rescued of certain report, it points out that before being buried the deceased, their bones were fleshed and then colored (to see Vignati 1938 “colored Skulls of San Blas' indigenous cemetery”), hypothetically colored with the tattoo so that they were recognized by the celestial guardian (gualicho)
 
The conception of the spirits like feminine he/she suggests the dead person's rebirth through their uterus.
 
The Gualicho, ideally a spirit of infernal origin, in he/she practices it he/she was an individual disguised of anthropomorphous giant, dedicated to terrify the women and the children, comparable to Halpen of the onas, and equally feminine.

It is important to highlight the grade of incidence of the aboriginal culture in the Creole culture, as much in the uses as in the customs and the language. Of I rescue it the following ones:
 
 Se used the TATTOO, fact with a thread or sow introduced under the skin.
They denominated COURT to the place where they carried out their sport activities.
They are attributed the idea of a high called God SOYCHU (God) and of a spirit of the wrong that GUALICHU called.
The word CHE people meant, at the moment very common in the Creole use.
 
 
During the half part of the Holoceno whose beginning could be marked B.C. around the 6500, the climate became but warm and humid, with world reach. This change produced an increment in the level of the oceans. (Politis)
 
The corroborated fact of the existence of many skeletons of horses is also rescued that were beheaded in honor of the God of the Tree. Considered as the altar of the God, the tree, receiver of great variety of offerings and useless objects already for them. In many cases reference is made to the Locust. (Casamiquela 1988).

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