Toward a Decolonial Cosmology: A Pedagogical Analysis of Cantigas 1, 15, and 19

Abstract

This article analyzes three cantigas from Ernesto Cardenal’s El Cántico Cósmico (1, 15, and 19) through the lenses of decolonial education, critical pedagogy, and the epistemologies of the South. It examines how the work reinterprets, in a poetic and situated manner, the creation of the universe, the evolution of life, and love as a constitutive force of the cosmos. The study demonstrates that Cardenal’s poetics operates as an epistemic insurgency that challenges the Eurocentric monopoly of knowledge and proposes an ecology of knowledges in which science, spirituality, ancestral memory, and sensibility coexist. The article concludes that El Cántico Cósmico offers an alternative pedagogical horizon capable of articulating ethics, imagination, and cognitive justice in the formation of critical subjects committed to social transformation.