Akujena
Maquiritari
Etymology
Likely a derivation from ku'jö (“lake, pool”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [akuːhʷena]
Proper noun
Akujena
- (Maquiritari mythology) a lake of restorative water in the middle of the hidden sky (kaju) beyond the visible sky from which shamans are said to gain their understanding
References
- de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “Akuena”, in , David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
- 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, page 13, 22, 26, 168
- 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 188–189