amode

Ye'kwana edit

Variant orthographies
ALIV	amode
Brazilian standard	amoode
New Tribes	amoode

Etymology edit

From Proto-Cariban *amore.^[1] Cognate to Trió amore (“soul”), Akawaio amore (“soul”).^[2]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [amoːɾ̠e]

Noun edit

amode (possessed amodedü)

transformation, instantiation, hypostasis
double or spirit (ökato) that can be controlled and directed, possessed by shamans and primeval animal ‘masters’ (adai/ödajö)

Usage notes edit

In non-Ye’kwana writings on Ye’kwana anthropology and mythology, this word is often cited as damodede, a loose rendering of the third-person possessed form of the word, properly damodedü or yamodedü depending on dialect.

Derived terms edit

References edit

de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “damodede”, 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 52–55, 229: “damodede”
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 44–46: “amoode”

^ Gildea, Spike & Payne, Doris (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?” in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Belém, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19-72.
^ Rivière, Peter (1997) “Carib soul matters—since Fock” in JASO 28/2, pages 139–148

[1] Gildea, Spike & Payne, Doris (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?” in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Belém, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19-72.

[2] Rivière, Peter (1997) “Carib soul matters—since Fock” in JASO 28/2, pages 139–148

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