Description
As plains dwellers, the Tehuelche were hardy drifters who wandered across the barren steppe dressed in the skins of the guanaco, the pretty, rust-coloured relative of the llama that inhabits the southern reaches of the Americas. The Tehuelche creation story is known as the Elal Cycle, after a heroic man-god who arrives in Patagonia from a “Big Island” on the back of a swan.
Recommended Citation
Moss, Chris (2015). "Elal Cycle," Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal. https://newprairiepress.org/sfh/2015/southamerica/3
Elal Cycle
As plains dwellers, the Tehuelche were hardy drifters who wandered across the barren steppe dressed in the skins of the guanaco, the pretty, rust-coloured relative of the llama that inhabits the southern reaches of the Americas. The Tehuelche creation story is known as the Elal Cycle, after a heroic man-god who arrives in Patagonia from a “Big Island” on the back of a swan.
