Wiyu

See also: wiyu

Ye'kwana

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, 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, Santa Barbara: University of California, page 194–199
  • 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, 108, 137, 228, 231
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