amode

Maquiritari

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *amore.[1] Cognate to Trió amore (“soul”), Akawaio amore (“soul”).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [amoːɾ̠e]

Noun

amode (possessed amodedü)

  1. transformation, instantiation, hypostasis
  2. double or spirit (ökato) that can be controlled and directed, possessed by shamans and primeval animal ‘masters’ (adai/ödajö)

Derived terms

References
  • de Civrieux, Marc (1980), “damodede”, in ,  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN
  • Guss, David M. (1989) To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 52–55, 229
  • Gongora, Majoí Fávero (2017) Ääma ashichaato: replicações, transformações, pessoas e cantos entre os Ye’kwana do rio Auaris‎, corrected edition, São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, page 44–46
  1. Gildea, Spike & Payne, Doris (2007) “Is Greenberg’s ‘Macro-Carib’ viable?” in Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, Belém, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19-72.
  2. Rivière, Peter (1997) “Carib soul matters—since Fock” in JASO 28/2, pages 139–148
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