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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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Pronunciation
Noun
wiyu
- a malevolent water spirit of fecundity that can take the form of an anaconda, a person, etc., and causes floods and kidnaps people as a creation of the water goddess Wiyu
- Synonym: mawadi
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- 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 195: “Wiyu”