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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Compare Tariana wanari (“anhinga”), Wanari Yapirikuri (“God”), and also see the etymological notes at wanadi.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Wanadi
- (Ye'kwana mythology) A mythological figure functioning variously as a god, shaman, and culture hero, created by the sun and creator of humans, who retreated from the world after its corruption and no longer interferes with earthly affairs
- (Christianity) God
- One of a small number of temporary names given to a baby boy at birth until a true name can be determined
References
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Wanadi”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 203, 291
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “wanādi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
- 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
- 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 203, 222: “Wanadi”