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Ye'kwana[edit]
ALIV | widiki |
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Brazilian standard | widiiki |
New Tribes | widiiqui |
historical ad hoc | wiriki |
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
widiki (possessed widikiyü)
- small quartz crystal which is attributed shamanic power and kept in a shaman’s maraca after his initiation
References[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “widiki”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “wiriki”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 194
- 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, pages 230, 243
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris[2], corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 48 et passim; possessed form, page 109: “widiiki […] Shiiwidiikiyö”