Yochĩ
Marubo · numen · Marubo traditional religion; continuing · numen
The yochĩ are the malevolent counterparts of the yové: shades and doubles, human or animal in form but stripped of adornment, kinship and society. Where the yové are immortal and healthy, the yochĩ are predatory and disordered, aggregating out of the mutilated remains of the dead to prowl the Death-Earth in search of the souls of the living. They are the agents of sickness and misfortune, and the antagonists whom the shaman confronts, names and drives off in the curing chants.
Domains
- spirit world
- sickness
Powers
- inflicts sickness and predation on the living
- forms itself from the parts of dead or mutilated beings
Relations
- enemy: Yové
Sources
- Instituto Socioambiental (ISA). Povos Indígenas no Brasil: Marubo — Cosmologia. https://pib.socioambiental.org.
- Cesarino, P. de N. 2011. Oniska: poética do xamanismo na Amazônia. São Paulo: Perspectiva.