audaajö edemi'jüdü

From audaajö (“conuco, slash-and-burn garden”) +‎ ödemi (“song, chant”) +‎ -'jüdü (past possessed suffix), thus ‘what was sung of the garden’.

• IPA^(key): [awɾ̠ʷaːhə eɾ̠eːmiʔçɨɾ̠ɨ]

audaajö edemi'jüdü

1. 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
2. the festival itself

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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.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
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “adahe ademi hidi”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.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
• Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Audaja edemi jödö: singing the gardens” in The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People, page 109–117