tuna awono ökato
Ye'kwana edit
| ALIV | tuna awono ökato |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | tuna awoono äkaato |
| New Tribes | tuna awoono äcaato |
| historical ad hoc | tuna awono akato |
Etymology edit
From tuna (“water”) + awö (“at, in, on”) + -ano (nominalizer) + ökato (“shadow, reflection, spirit, double”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
- reflection seen in the water
- Synonym: na'kwaka ökato
- one of the several doubles or spirits (ökato) possessed by each person, namely the one said to reside in the water, to be malevolent, to serve as an extension of the water goddess Wiyu, and to return to the water at death
- Synonym: na'kwaka ökato
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, page 51: “tuna awono akato”
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 207: “tuna awano äcato”