öttö edemi'jüdü
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From öttö (“village roundhouse”) + ödemi (“song, chant”) + -'jüdü (past possessed suffix), thus ‘what was sung of the roundhouse’.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- the several-day-long chant sung during the festival to inaugurate a new village roundhouse and eliminate the ritual pollution (amoi) present in its components
- the festival itself
References edit
- 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 65–66, 226: “atta ademi hidi”
- Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä Edemi Jödö: the cosmosonics ritual of inauguration of the Ye’kwana round house” in Hawò, volume 1, page 1–31
- Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä edemi jödö: singing the houses”, in The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People[1], Tübingen: Universität Tübingen, pages 96–109