Wanatu

See also: wanatu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV Wanatu
Brazilian standard Wanaatu
New Tribes Wanaatu
historical ad hoc Wahnatu

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [wanaːtu]

Proper noun

Wanatu

  1. (Ye'kwana mythology) the first created Ye'kwana, made by Wanadi from the clay of Mount Dekuana (Ye'kwana jüüdü)
    Synonym: Ye'kwana

References

  • Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[1], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 191: “Wanatu”
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Wahnatu”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
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