p.

term

its meaning

21

c^indign

"curing chant"

wayorokeri

"interpreter of dreams"

ndak[mba]yorokeri

"good dream beings"

wamanoka>eri

"curer and diagnostician"

24

c^indignwakeri

"sorcerer" causing illnesses

80

wayorok

"dream"

113

wandik

"names’

144

e>nopwe

"knowledge"

145

e>mbac^apak

"myths"

e>mac^inoa

"songs"

waerik

"funny stories"

150

wac^ipai

"spirit controller"

p.

46

the two underworlds, Seronwe below the river and Totoyo below the forest".

47

"At the highest point of the sky ... is the abode of otiose spirits called kurudneri who rarely come down to earth. The kurudneri were once human beings who went up into the sky with the culture hero Marinke when he had to flee from the jaguars ... . However, ... they ... descend during a ritual known as mbakoykoy. ... The spirits would come down in the form of a small bird (mbakoykoy)".

47-8

Totoyo under the forest – whose master is Manco who is connected with the sun (miokpo) – is the haunt of harmful spirits".

48

"otiose wachipai, ayahuasca plant spirits (chongpai) and the nameless apoining ... are usually benign."

p.

22

"One day he was waiting by the river ... when ... he was surrounded by different species of fish who suddenly spoke. They old him that they were spirits form the river and that they wanted to communicate with him in dreams so that he could become knowledgeable. In his dreams and visions he frequently repeated this experience and gradually became proficient at understanding their messages. The spirits began to advise him where to hunt and fish".

46

"The spirits ... can transform their images from human to animal with ease".

52

"dreams from the spirit world" : "beneficial spirits ... usually appear as sensual women who easily fall in love with a young man ... . These women (the ndakoyokeri) ... tell the hunter where game may be found and how many animals can be taken."

59

carp-like boquichicos (ambaru) are

60

maize (toket)."

86

"For the keme, ... the tortoise appeared as a seat."

91

toto (dangerous spirits) are "old thin white ... demons"

244

"The toto was in the form of a long, thin, pale creature".

245

"a spirit can take the form of a person or an animal and change instantaneously."

"The other aspect of the soul, the wamawere, can travel ‘like the wind’ {cf. [<ibri^] ruh.a ‘spirit, wind’} ... when torch-lights were seen passing" {cf. fire of the Holy Spirit at the pentacost}

p.

29

kapiro "herons are ... considered ... to precede [a dead shaman’s] nokiren (soul) to Seronwe."

31

"paron bird (turkey hen) ... signifies that dead person was killed by a snake."

34

"appearances are to dying relatives in the form of spirits called wambetoeri who show the way to the underworld."

p.

42

"Keme (the tapir) was making arrows ... and Torogn (the opossum) was annoyed. ... Bawi [‘deer’] said ‘I want the bark of the tawiresindak tree as my skin.’ Then he put on the red tree bark and it was light so he could run in a straight line. Keme put on

43

a wakumbueshindak which is much heavier, and so he moves in circles."

"The tapir liked the black {with /KeMe/, cf. /KM/ of al-CHeMy, the ‘black’ art} dye ‘huito’ (o) and the tortoise [Sawe] came and took a bite. ... Sawe bit Keme’s penis and would not let go. Keme ran through the forest with Sawe hanging behind. {must have been a snapping-turtle}

44

[From the stomach of the tapir, Sawe took the killing power for talon-claws, and distributed it to paredator-carnivores :] "the jaguar (petpet) ..., and the harpy eagle (sing), which eats monkeys, ... and the jaguar put it in his claws so that they could kill ... . Matuk {cf. [Polynesian & Fijian] MATUKu, a mythic bird} (gallinazo -- vulture) also did it."

50

"They met a large toad called Orognorogntone ... and it began to sweat ... . ... The toad came to him in a dream and said, ‘Only you will be saved. ... When the attack happens you must cover yourself in a yaro leaf. ...’ ... The young man woke up sweating. ... Then there came a small money sipin (black mantled tamarin) ... scout. He shot at the sipin but he missed it and ... a torrential rainstorm started. {cf. [Aztec] Ecatonatoniuh (‘Wind-Sun’) of the monkey-people} First came an ihpi or washa (common squirrel monkey), then ... squirrels. ...

51

kapiwi (coati). ... The next day the surviving monkeys descended from the tree, killed the youths and ate them. The youth who helped the toad ... hid in his yaro leaves. ... One monkey, the hor (mono martin), refused to eat human flesh." ["The ohpu monkeys are the same species ... prohibited from eating during pregnancy".]

56

prayer to the stars (c^iokpo) by woman, : its effect was "to help her cultivate the chacra. ...

57

But that night she told people that the star man had helped her in her chacra."

p.

species

68

kerontogn tree-fruit

menkeromba bird

c^upit bird

ekhomba leaf

69

weomba fruit

peach-palm

koragnba fruit (for parrots)

sopi grubs

waya palm-tree

pio fruit-tree

masonara ‘aguaje-palm’

mantoro ‘achiote’

topobaudnihpi (fruit-eating squirrel)

p.

70

"The shaman induces a harmful spirit to leave the patient by the application of ... chili and garlic ... with isanga (macherik) nettles".

71

"A shaman will also suck the body of the patient to draw out any harmful elements there might be within."

72

"The mbakoy c^indign (‘small bird chant’)" helps a child who "would not go with anyone other than its mother".

animals causing ailment

remedy

symptoms

kayare (picuro)

mac^erik

pains in legs, arms, and chest

moka (collared peccary)

blow over patient

vomiting and fever

bi>ign fish

put tobacco in mouth

sore stomach, diarrhoea

sowe (black spider monkey)

tobacco

convulsions, hands clenched, teeth chattering

mapi (agouti)

hit affected area

children crying

mamori (sabalo fish)

tobacco

stomach ache, diarrhoea, and vomiting

"I realized that I had the ability to float on air. I hovered a few feet above the bed and turned over so that my arms were outstretched, then flew across the village ... . As I flew, ... sparks flew from my fingers ... . As I returned I concentrated by looking through my closed eyelids to keep me from falling down. On reaching my bed I rejoined my sleeping body."

keme (‘tapir’) : "The weika bird accompanies keme. It ... takes ticks from keme’s skin with its beak. ... When keme dies there is lightning and there is thunder."

nekei ("Blue and yellow" {should be : blue-and-orange?} macaw : "They fly to koragn (pacay palm) where they eat the fruit."

"formed by the passing of semen (wandawe) from father to mother during [sexual] intercourse by means of orgasm (e>mbuey)"

spirits

activity

state

toto

c^indign (sorcery)

oc^inosik (hatred)

c^onpai

e>pak (desire)

wanopo (affections)

ndakyoroken

e>yok (generosity)

e>nopwe (thought)

wamawere

kawe (inactivity)

nowe (depression)