wiyu

== Ye'kwana == === Alternative forms === weyu === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [wiju] === Noun === wiyu a malevolent water spirit of fecundity that can take the form of an anaconda, a person, etc., and causes floods and kidnaps people as a creation of the water goddess Wiyu Synonym: mawadi === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “wiyu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005), Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎[2], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 195: “Wiyu”