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See also: Wiyu
Ye'kwana[edit]
ALIV | wiyu |
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Brazilian standard | wiyu |
New Tribes | wiyu |
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
wiyu
- 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[edit]
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 195: “Wiyu”