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Ye'kwana
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Proper noun
Akuwena
- (Ye'kwana mythology) a lake of restorative water in the middle of the hidden sky (kaju) beyond the visible sky from which shamans are said to gain their understanding
References
- 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 141–142, 145–146, 156, 169, 176, 197, 240, 256, 343–344, 347–351, 354: “Akuuwena”
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Akuena”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- 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, pages 13, 22, 26, 168: “Akuena”
- 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 188–189: “acujena”