ödemi eyajö
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (De'kwana) ödemi edajö
Etymology
From ödemi (“song, chant”) + öyajö (“possessor, master”) + -∅ (possessed suffix), thus literally ‘possessor of song’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əɾ̠emi ejahə]
Noun
ödemi eyajö (plural ödemi eyamo)
- (Ye'kwana dialect) a master storyteller, singer, and ritual specialist in the Maquiritari tradition, one who has been instructed in all traditional chants by a previous ödemi eyajö
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 183–186
- Andrade, Karenina Vieira (2013) “Alteridades (in)corporadas: notas sobre a chefia ye’kuana” in Anuário Antropológico, volume 38, number 1, page 74