Yekwana

 

Yekuana shamanic basketry [uppermost Orinoco]

pp. 6-7 synonyms for /Yekuana/

 

p. 41 /So>to/ ‘human’

pp. 21-22 terminology

 

akato (‘soul’)

 

pp. 31, 127-131 arac^e spirits

 

pp. 147-149 Yekuana chant-spells

 

pp. 150-158, 243-245 wiriki (quartz) spirits

 

Madedekomo ("Snake People") spirits

 

shamanism of tribes in South America other than Yekuana

 

pp. 53-56, 103-104, 133-139 Yekuana myths

 

pp. 109-110, 141-142 myths of tribes in Venezuela other than Yekuana

 

p. 239, n. 5:27 [Yupa, "known as "tame Motilones," ... in the Perija Mountains between Colombia and Venezuela."] "Kopecho is the Yupa version of toad Grandmother as Mistress of the Earth ... . Among the Tacana she herself devours the dead, just as does Tlaltecuhtli, the personification of the earth as a monstrous toad in Aztec Mexico" (YF, p. 25).

pp. 133-134 dietary restrictions

 

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