Witoto

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Cool Tobacco, Sweet Coca [  Uitoto, on upper Igaraparana` r. ]

p. 23 transliterations

 

breaths as metaphors

 

p. 46 "The ancient people discovered these sets of relations ... by means of "tobacco drunkenness and dreams.""

pp. 64-66 indications of dreams as to dawns of days [2B:70-174]

 

pp. 93-94 3A:132-157 foods stored in specific types of baskets

 

the 3 types of basket for the 3 armadillo species

 

p. 92 n~enig`o ‘proper armadillo’; na`konig`o ‘spurred armadillo’

p. 264 Priodontes maximus = giant armadillo (bainaag`o)

p. 265 Dasypus kappleri = spurred armadillo; Dasypus novemcinctus = small armadillo

[labels "pentagonal" and "hexagonal" are applied to depictions of basket-weaves on p. 270]

{would the distinction between pentagonal and hexagonal basket-weaves be related to a distinction between 5-pointed stars (depicted on ceilings of tomb-chambers within Kemetian pyramids) and 6-pointed stars (Sumerian "dingir" asterisk)?

and would a square-weave indicate a 4-pointed star (suggested by the figurative use in Samskr.ta of the word /t a r a /, literally ‘cross’, for ‘star’)?

[and what about the 3-pointed star (though not repraesented by this weaving)? – /s.i n / (/hsing/) ‘star’, "the oldest writing of this character has three" (Wilder & Ingram : An Analysis of Chinese Characters. p. 143, # 422)]}

p. 270, n. 3A:8 male thunders, female thunders

 

conjuring of eyen

 

Juan Alvaro Echeverri : Cool Tobacco, Sweet Coca. Themis Books, 1996.