Wiyu

See also: wiyu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	Wiyu
Brazilian standard	Wiyu
New Tribes	Wiyu
historical ad hoc	Huiio

Alternative forms

• Weyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [wiju]

Proper noun

Wiyu

1. (Ye'kwana mythology) the supernatural mistress of the water and mother to its creatures, a malevolent symbol of fecundity appearing variously as the anaconda and the rainbow: the Plumed Serpent

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Huiio”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 194–199: “Wiyu”
• 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 51, 108, 137, 228, 231: “Wiyu”