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Ye'kwana
Etymology
Compare Kari'na imaware (“bush spirit”), Akawaio mawari (“evil spirit”), Pemon imawari (“nature spirit”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mawadi
- ritual pollution or taboo matter (amoi) found in fish and basketry materials, said to sometimes be visible as worms or parasites
- a malevolent water spirit of fecundity that typically takes the form of an anaconda and causes floods and kidnaps people as a creation of the water goddess Wiyu
- Synonym: wiyu
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “mawadi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “mawa:di”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “mawadi”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point 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 296–297: “mawadi”
- 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 108, 146–161: “mawadi”