Wana sejjedü

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV Wana sejjedü
Brazilian standard Wana sejjedö
New Tribes Wana sejjedö

Etymology

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From Wana (variant of Wanadi) +‎ sejje (intelligence) +‎ -dü (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘intelligence of Wanadi’.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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Wana sejjedü

  1. (Ye'kwana mythology) one of the eight houses of the invisible sky beyond the sky (kaju), the one inhabited exclusively by Wanadi, from which he sends out and to which he collects eye spirits (önu ekato) and heart spirits (do'ta) at birth and death

References

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  • 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, pages 188, 206–208:wanasejejödö [sic] [] wana sejedö
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “kahuña”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN