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Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Madawaka
- Cerro Marahuaca
- (Ye'kwana mythology) a vast tree, the origin of all food and vegetation, that was felled long ago, leaving behind Cerro Marahuaca as a stump
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 112, 115, 157, 166, 203, 302, 345, 426: “Madaawaka”
- 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 256–258: “Madawacä”