öttö edemi'jüdü
Maquiritari
Etymology
From öttö (“village roundhouse”) + ödemi (“song, chant”) + -'jüdü (past possessed suffix), thus ‘what was sung of the roundhouse’.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [əttə eɾ̠emiʔhʷɨɾ̠ɨ]
Noun
öttö edemi'jüdü
- the several-day-long chant sung during the festival to inaugurate a new village roundhouse and eliminate the ritual pollution (amoi) present in its components
- the festival itself
References
- 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 65–66, 226
- Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä Edemi Jödö: the cosmosonics ritual of inauguration of the Ye’kwana round house” in Hawò, volume 1, page 1–31
- Albernaz, Pablo de Castro (2020) “Ättä edemi jödö: singing the houses” in The Ye’kwana Cosmosonics: A Musical Ethnography of a North-Amazon People, page 96–109