Wanadi

See also: wanadi

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Compare Tariana wanari (“anhinga”), Wanari Yapirikuri (“God”), and also see the etymological notes at wanadi.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [wanaːɾ̠i]

Proper noun

Wanadi

  1. (Ye'kwana mythology) A mythological figure functioning variously as a god, shaman, and culture hero, created by the sun and creator of humans, who retreated from the world after its corruption and no longer interferes with earthly affairs
  2. (Christianity) God
  3. One of a small number of temporary names given to a baby boy at birth until a true name can be determined

References
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Wanadi”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon, pages 203, 291
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “wanādi”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • 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
  • 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, pages 203, 222
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