Uda'jö

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Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV Uda'jö
Brazilian standard Uda'fä
New Tribes Uda'jä
historical ad hoc Wlaha

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Uda'jö

  1. the Pleiades
  2. (Ye'kwana mythology) the chief of the star people who led them into the sky, where he and his six hypostases (amode) became the Pleiades

References

  • 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, page 262:Uda'jä
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Wlaha”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN