Guñelve

Guñelve (wünelfe in Mapudungun) is a symbol from the Mapuche iconography which can be described as an octagram or a star with eight points.

The Guñelve.

It represents the planet Venus, but has also erroneously been thought to represent the canelo tree, which is considered sacred among the Mapuches.[1]

The guñelve, also called the "Star of Arauco", was the inspiration of Bernardo O'Higgins to create the current flag of Chile.[2][3][4]

Currently the guñelve has been used by many designers, an example of that is the 2015 Copa América in Chile, which was used as the symbol of the cup.[5]

See also

References
  1. @jrzv68 (16 June 2013). "Toki kurá: El Otro saqueo al Pueblo Mapuche: El Canelo y La estrella de Arauco. (Aukanaw)".
  2. "La CPU Coja ©2018 » Símbolos: La Bandera".
  3. Guaquil, Rodolfo Manzo. Los verdaderos emblemas de la República de Chile: 1810-2010 (in Spanish). p. 23. Otro aspecto importante en la bandera es la estrella de cinco puntas e inclinada que representa a la wünelfe, nombre que con que los indígenas mapuches asignaban al planeta Venus...
  4. Amunátegui Aldunate, Miguel Luis (1870). Los precursores de la independencia de Chile (in Spanish). III. Santiago, Chile: Imprenta, Litografía i Encuadernación Barcelona. p. 587-590. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  5. "Los simbolismos detrás del logo de la Copa América". BolaVip.
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