Rome
Marubo · numen · Marubo traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Rome, tobacco, is the spirit-plant that defines the Marubo shaman, who is called romeya, 'the one of tobacco'. Taken as snuff by initiated men, it is the substance that opens and sustains commerce with the yové and empowers the singing of the curing and spirit chants. Paired with the vision-vine Oni, tobacco supplies the other half of the shaman's means, and the two together frame the sensory economy through which the romeya moves among the worlds.
Domains
- tobacco
- shamanism
Powers
- empowers and names the tobacco-shaman
Relations
- companion: YovéCesarino, P. de N. 2011. Oniska: poética do xamanismo na Amazônia. São Paulo: Perspectiva. (secondary)
- ally: OniTobacco and the vision-vine are the paired instruments of the shaman.Cesarino, P. de N. 2011. Oniska: poética do xamanismo na Amazônia. São Paulo: Perspectiva. (secondary)
Sources
- Rome (tobacco) is the substance and spirit-power from which the Marubo shaman takes his very name, romeya, 'one of tobacco'.: Cesarino, P. de N. 2013. Cartografias do cosmos: conhecimento, iconografia e artes verbais entre os Marubo. Mana 19(3): 437-471. (secondary); Cesarino, P. de N. 2011. Oniska: poética do xamanismo na Amazônia. São Paulo: Perspectiva. (secondary)