A brief summary of some of my recent research into Northwest Amazonian cosmologies.

In Northwest Amazonia, light-energy emanates from the Primal Sun and circulates throughout the cosmos. The Primal Sun is an abstract entity, sometimes imagined as a kind of formless multiplicity of radiating lights, who only ‘manifests’ himself as the physical sun and moon, understood as his body or ‘shadow-image.’

This duality of Sun and Moon is, nonetheless, basic to the Primal Sun: if he emanates a ethereal light-energy as the Sun, he produces a dark liquid as the Moon, the flow of menstruation, which composes the gross animal body.
Everything is made out of light, for light is itself a substance, either more ethereal or gross.
The Primal Sun’s emanation may take on a gradational hierarchy, in Neo-Platonist fashion, framed in terms of a continuum of color. The ‘highest’ gradation is a yellow-white color and which stands for the most abstract dimension of the Primal Sun’s force. It differentiates into orangey reds and brown and ultimately black, in such a way that the ‘divided line’ of the Sun/Moon cuts across the gradational hierarchy.
The duality of Sun/Moon is intrinsic to every person and essentially every being. In myths, it can be shown that every single character is homologous to the sun and moon, either as a single character (such as Venus, who is both morning star and evening star), or as a pair (such as two brothers, sisters, etc.). The dual essence of the Primal Sun is “fractally” replicated throughout the Northwest Amazonian cosmos.
Dialectics concerns the shifting relations of symmetry and asymmetry in terms of relations of energy-exchange within the cosmopolitical economy of vitality. These shifting relations nonetheless self-articulate a sole duality each time, that of the Primal Sun, itself the structure of the person.
Absolute thought is mythic thought, whose formal structure realizes that of person and cosmos in identical terms, a thinking absolutely continuous with its own object.

*Keori image-forms composed out of the light-energy of the Sun (Reichel-Dolmatoff 1978)*