Tamoucum

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Yao (South America)

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Cariban *tamu (grandfather). Compare Ye'kwana tamu (grandfather), Kari'na tamu (grandfather) (plural tamukon), tamusi (grandfather, God, as a direct address).

Proper noun

Tamoucum

  1. a god said to dwell in the upper regions of the air and rule the world below

Further reading

  • de Laet, Johannes (1633) Novus orbis seu descriptionis Indiæ occidentalis, Libri XVIII, page 642