isiki

• IPA^(key): /iˈsi.ki/

isiki

1. feces, excrement

   Au ha wani yiu, mata onutai yiu. Nutai, tirijijiji. Iya okanu wi. Okahiga aantepenejo. Maniu, umapai ipitsi. Hoona! umapai. Akamapai yiu. Oho! Aakataitsueneu. Kata okaho isityiu, otowo isitya. Ma… pohokapai otowo yiu, kehoto... inyataNAKUpai kehoto.

   Ehen.

   Ehen. Uuntsataihapai yiu. Pohokapai otowo. Aitsa katowopai.

   Aitsa Keheju—

   Aitsa kehejua otowo. Ukuapai otowo yiu. Ikyantene yeu, iyene enu wi. Ikyantawi ... kwakwoho kanato.

   was done, he fastened hammock cord . rope . Tirijijiji! approached her . would pull out with . "Come," said . "All right!," said . was surely dying. foul smell! had defecated everywhere. was all smeared with feces here , head was covered in feces. had no... her hair had fallen out, earth... it was HOT inside the earth.

   Ah.

   Yes. was dripping with sweat. Her hair was falling out; she was just about bald.

   not strong —

   Her hair was not strong. Her hair was rotting. struggled to pull her up . At last, carried door of men's house.

2. excreta (excreted substance)

   Katanainhapai weruyapai ipitsi whun. Katanainha mo ... HONjapai, ojonain hyan moHONjapai ojonain — iyukulatoyein yiu. MoHONjapai. Katanai weru— —yapai kalaiyiu whun, mapa isitya ou whun, mapa isitya ou whun. Mapa isitya... Itsakala putakapai kala sekunya, kala weru-YA-pai. Itsapakala akainya pumapai ipitsi, isitya. Ehen. We-RU-ya-pai. Awojotakutiu.

   There is yellow . There is all ... RED, here it is RED — its former body paint ... Red. Here is really yel— —low from beebread. From beebread. beebread.

   is the very same you tasted long ago, that yellow . "Tastes like piqui mash," you remarked about it, beebread. Yes. Really yellow. completely covered .

• Beebread (mapa isitya, lit., honey excreta), described in the quote as being weruyapai (yellow), is a mixture of honey, pollen, and secretions from the brood nurse bees, who feed it to the honey bee larvae. The beebread undergoes lactic fermentation in the honeycomb, resulting in a delicious bittersweet yellow-brownish paste.
• In the first excerpt above, from the traditional story, the "Man who Drowned in Honey" (Paisityawalu), a bold young woman has committed a grave sacrilege, and been cruelly buried alive as punishment. Her lover secretly visits her grave in the dead of night and digs her out, finding her weak and near death. During her ordeal, she has fouled herself with her own feces; her hair has fallen out and she is dripping with sweat. Although she is in a repulsive state, her lover seems not to care; as the story continues, he carries her to the river, where he tenderly washes her. Just before dawn, under cover of a driving rainstorm, he secretly carries her home so her mother can hide her until she escapes.
• In the second except from the same story, a cruel husband is drowned in honey and transformed by his wife into a frog. This species of frog (Leptodactylus latrans), is described by the Wauja as particularly large and ugly. It can be heard croaking in the season when the piqui fruit falls from the trees. The storyteller points out that this species of frog still bears traces of the events of ancient times: it has reddish markings on its arms and legs, where, in its human incarnation, it once wore red macaw-feather armbands and red body paint. This frog also has faint streaks of golden yellow extending backward from its head, a testament to the fate of the man who drowned in honey.

• isityan (“his/her/its fart”)
• isityauto (“anus”)
• isityeke (“vomits”)
• paisityawalu (“Her-Feces-Woman”)

• "Au ha wani yiu" (transcript pp. 14-15) and "Ojonainhapai" (transcript pp. 31-32) uttered by Itsautaku, storyteller and elder, recounting the traditional Wauja tale of the "Man Who Drowned in Honey," in the presence of his adolescent son Mayuri, adult daughter Mukura, and others. Recorded in Piyulaga village by E. Ireland, December 1989.