widiki

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV widiki
Brazilian standard widiiki
New Tribes widiiqui
historical ad hoc wiriki

Pronunciation

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Noun

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widiki (possessed widikiyü)

  1. small quartz crystal which is attributed shamanic power and kept in a shaman’s maraca after his initiation

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “widiki”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 222, 402:[widi:ki] ~ [widi:qi] 'shaman's crystal stone' [] widi:ki - crystal, diamond (kept by shaman)
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “wiriki”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 194
  • 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 230, 243
  • Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 48 et passim; possessed form, page 109:widiiki [] Shiiwidiikiyö