aji'choto weja'kadü
Maquiritari
Etymology
From aji'choto (“girl in seclusion after menarche”) + w- (“intransitive marker”) + eja'ka (“to come out”) + -dü (action nominalizer), thus literally ‘the coming out of the girl in seclusion’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ahiʔt͡ʃoto wehaʔkaɾ̠ɨ]
Noun
aji'choto weja'kadü
- coming-of-age ritual for girls performed after menarche, intended to protect them from Odo'sha in a dangerous time and introduce them to adulthood
References
- 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 236–241
- Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 154