Uda'jö

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Ye'kwana[edit]

Variant orthographies
ALIV Uda'jö
Brazilian standard Uda'fä
New Tribes Uda'jä
historical ad hoc Wlaha

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Uda'jö

  1. the Pleiades
  2. (Ye'kwana mythology) the chief of the star people who led them into the sky, where he and his six hypostases (amode) became the Pleiades

References[edit]

  • 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 262:Uda'jä
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “Wlaha”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN