tuna awono ökato

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From tuna (water) + awö (at, in, on) + -ano (nominalizer) + ökato (shadow, reflection, spirit, double).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tuna aβoːno əkaːto]

Noun

tuna awono ökato

  1. reflection seen in the water
    Synonym: na'kwaka ökato
  2. one of the several doubles or spirits (ökato) possessed by each person, namely the one said to reside in the water, to be malevolent, to serve as an extension of the water goddess Wiyu, and to return to the water at death
    Synonym: na'kwaka ökato

References

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    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, page 51
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    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 207
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