Aicüna
Tikuna · numen · Tikuna traditional religion; continuing · Recorded classification
Aicüna is the second of the two primordial sisters, born from the left knee of Ngutapa together with the younger hero Ipi. Like her sister Mowatcha she appears at the instant of her birth already occupied with women's textile labour, weaving a net while the brothers ready blowgun and bow, so that the four-fold emergence from the knees sets out the complementary crafts of men and women at the beginning of the world. She figures in the astronomical and ritual traditions recorded for the Tikuna, where the primordial sisters are woven into the imagery of the girls' initiation and its stars.
Parentage
- parent: Ngutapaborn from the left knee with IpiInstituto Socioambiental, 'Ticuna: A origem dos Ticuna', Povos Indigenas no Brasil, pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary)
Domains
- craft
Powers
- weaves a fishing net at the moment of her birth
Relations
- parent: Ngutapaborn from the left knee with IpiInstituto Socioambiental, 'Ticuna: A origem dos Ticuna', Povos Indigenas no Brasil, pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary)
- sibling: YoiInstituto Socioambiental, 'Ticuna: A origem dos Ticuna', Povos Indigenas no Brasil, pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary)
- sibling: IpiInstituto Socioambiental, 'Ticuna: A origem dos Ticuna', Povos Indigenas no Brasil, pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary)
- sibling: MowatchaInstituto Socioambiental, 'Ticuna: A origem dos Ticuna', Povos Indigenas no Brasil, pib.socioambiental.org. (secondary)
Sources
- Aicuna is the second primordial sister, born from Ngutapa's left knee with Ipi and shown weaving a net at her birth.: Curt Nimuendaju, The Tukuna, ed. Robert H. Lowie (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952). (primary); Priscila Faulhaber, 'Ticuna knowledge, Worecu stars and sky movements', Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 7, S278 (2011): 58-65. (secondary)