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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From ökato (“shadow, reflection, spirit, double”) + -mjüdü (past possessed suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
ökatomjüdü
- past possessed form of ökato
- ghost; one of the several doubles or spirits (ökato) possessed by each person, namely the one said to reside on the earth, to be somewhat malevolent, and to remain on the earth after death, wandering and visiting the places it saw when alive in the form of a bleating dwarf covered in jadi clay until another lifetime has passed
- Synonym: ökatomjö
References
- Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 51: “akatomha”
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 89, 94–100, 102, 139–140, 173, 179, 262, 281: “äkaatomjödö”
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela, Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 207–209: “äcatonjä”