Djurí

Djurí, whose name Goldman renders 'the singing one', is the first of the Hehénewa pajés, the archetypal shaman of the mythic age. In Cubeo thought shamanic power is inseparable from song, and Djurí embodies its origin. He belongs to the order of beings descended from the tail of the Ancestral Anaconda, from whom the shamans and the lower-ranking sibs proceed, over against the head of the serpent from which the senior clans descend. Through him the chant that heals and that governs relations with the spirit world enters human practice.

Parentage

• paternal: Ancestral Anaconda

Domains

• shamanism
• sacred song

Powers

• sing the primordial shamanic chant

Epithets

• the singing oneIrving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) (secondary)

Relations

• child: Ancestral AnacondaDescends from the tail of the Ancestral Anaconda, whence come the shamans.Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004): shamans descend from the tail of the primal anaconda (secondary)

Sources

• Djurí, 'the singing one', is the first of the Hehénewa pajés (shamans).: Irving Goldman, Cubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004) (secondary)