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Ye'kwana
Etymology
From shiichu (“baby”) + w- (intransitive marker) + eja'ka (“to come out”) + -dü (action nominalizer), thus literally ‘the coming out of the baby’.
Pronunciation
Noun
shiichu weja'kadü
- public ceremonial chant (ödemi) sung when bringing a newborn out of the village roundhouse for the first time, after its umbilical cord has fallen off, symbolically introducing it to the world
References
- 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 36, 65, 145: “sichu hiyacadi”
- 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 226: “shichucä ijacadö”
- 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, page 209: “shiichu'kä weja'kadö”