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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *amore.[1] Cognate to Trió amore (“soul”), Akawaio amore (“soul”).[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
amode (possessed amodedü)
- transformation, instantiation, hypostasis
- double or spirit (ökato) that can be controlled and directed, possessed by shamans and primeval animal ‘masters’ (adai/öyajö)
Usage notes
In non-Ye’kwana writings on Ye’kwana anthropology and mythology, this word is often cited as damodede, a loose rendering of the third-person possessed form of the word, properly damodedü or yamodedü depending on dialect.
Derived terms
References
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “damodede”, 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 52–55, 229: “damodede”
- 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 44–46: “amoode”
- ^ Gildea, Spike & Payne, Doris (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?” in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Belém, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19-72.
- ^ Rivière, Peter (1997) “Carib soul matters—since Fock” in JASO 28/2, pages 139–148