Wana sejjedü

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	Wana sejjedü
Brazilian standard	Wana sejjedö
New Tribes	Wana sejjedö

Etymology

From Wana (variant of Wanadi) +‎ sejje (“intelligence”) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘intelligence of Wanadi’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wana sehheɾ̠ɨ]

Proper noun

Wana sejjedü

1. (Ye'kwana mythology) one of the eight houses of the invisible sky beyond the sky (kaju), the one inhabited exclusively by Wanadi, from which he sends out and to which he collects eye spirits (önu ekato) and heart spirits (do'ta) at birth and death

References

• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 188, 206–208: “wanasejejödö [sic] […] wana sejedö”
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “kahuña”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN