oko uhu

Barasana

Etymology

oko (“water”) +‎ uhu (“master”), literally "master of water".

Noun

oko uhu

1. the egret, associated by the Barasana with cold, mists and rain

References

• 1982, Hugh-Jones, Barasana Cosmology, in Ethnoastronomy and archaeoastronomy in the American tropics: oko uhu