widiki

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [wiɾ̠iːki]

Noun

widiki (possessed widikiyü)

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

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “widiki”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
  • 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, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 109
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