wiyu

See also: Wiyu

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [wiju]

Noun

wiyu

  1. a malevolent water spirit of fecundity that can take the form of an anaconda, a person, etc., and causes floods and kidnaps people as a creation of the water goddess Wiyu
    Synonym: mawadi

References
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
  • 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 195
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