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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From audaajö (“conuco, slash-and-burn garden”) + ödemi (“song, chant”) + -'jüdü (past possessed suffix), literally “what was sung of the garden”.
Pronunciation
Noun
audaajö edemi'jüdü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
- the several-day-long chant sung during the festival to inaugurate newly-cleared village gardens and eliminate the ritual pollution (amoi) created by their clearing
- Synonym: tooki edemi'jüdü
- the festival itself
- Synonym: tooki edemi'jüdü
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 26, 147–148, 155, 158–160, 163, 165–166, 231–232, 298, 321, 338, 371, 401: “ädwaajä edeemi’jödö”
- 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 34–39: “adaha ademi hidi”
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “adahe ademi hidi”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 175:
adahe ademi hidi: Literally meaning ‘To sing conuco’, this is the festival for the new conuco held between the time of its clearing and its planting. The most important annual Makiritare festival, it lasts for from three to five days, and is the occasion for a lengthy ritual singing of many of the most important parts of the Watunna, the main body of which is contained in the fourteen part Toqui.
- 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 185: “Audajä edemijödö”
- Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Audaja edemi jödö: singing the gardens”, in The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People, Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, pages 109–117