Akuwena
Ye'kwana
[edit]| ALIV | Akuwena |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | Akuuwena |
| New Tribes | Acuuwena |
| historical ad hoc | Akuena |
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Akuwena
- (Ye'kwana mythology) a lake of restorative water in the middle of the hidden sky (kaju) beyond the visible sky from which shamans are said to gain their understanding
References
[edit]- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[1], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, pages 141–142, 145–146, 156, 169, 176, 197, 240, 256, 343–344, 347–351, 354: “Akuuwena”
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Akuena”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- 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 13, 22, 26, 168: “Akuena”
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 188–189: “acujena”