Mapuc^e

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Shamans of the Foye Tree [Mapuc^e in the Temuco area of Chile]

terminology

 

guises of wekufe-spirits controlled by kalku

 

p. 24 the 2 mapu (‘worlds’)

 

p. 265, n. 4:14 "when a young woman was possessed by an evil spirit [wekufe] ... she danced life a meulen." {i.e., whirling, in the dervish style}

pp. 26-27 mac^i-pu:llu: spirits inherited "from a deceased machi on the mother’s side of the family"

 

pp. 34-35 behavior of wekufe-spirits

 

myths of creation

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FM&L = Donna Rosenberg : Folklore, Myths, and Legends. McGraw-Hill, 1997.

PSP =  http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/polaris.html

 

HR = E. Washburn Hopkins : The History of Religions. Macmillan Co, 1918.

'ED = G. Elliot Smith : The Evolution of the Dragon''. 1919. ''' http://www.sacred-texts.com/lcr/eod/eod41.htm



'AI'' = A. R. Radcliffe-Brown : The Andaman Islanders. Cambridge U Pr, 1922. ''' http://www.sacred-texts.com/asia/tai/tai04.htm

 

pp. 51-52, 58 construction of musical instruments

 

pp. 52-58 altar & its rewe (sacred notched post); their sacred plants; l a n - l a n

 

pp. 82-85 initiation of new female mac^i

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HG = William Mitford : The History of Greece. Boston, 1823.

practice of mac^i

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P = Diane E. Wirth : Parallels. 2003.

GM = Robert Graves : The Greek Myths. 1955.

pp. 87-89 seducing a spirit; marriage to a spirit

 

pp. 86-87, 93-94 uses of spirit-animals

 

pp. 104-106 death-ritual on behalf of mac^i

 

p. 106 "Living machi in the Puren-Lumaco area of the Araucanian region, in contrast, perform rituals on the cuel, mounds under which machi and longko are publicly buried."

mac^i weye (male homosexual / transvestite shamans)

 

p. 266, n. 5:7 Some North American Indian hermaphrodite "berdaches" went "alongside warriors, ... carrying the dead".

pp. 118-120 hermaphrodite deity {hermaphroditic deities are common in Africa}

 

pp. 120-122 foye-weye & lo n ko

 

pp. 236-238 moon & stars

 

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo : Shamans of the Foye Tree. U of TX Pr, Austin, 2007. [authoress of Hungarian maternal ancestry, p. 10]