Warodi

Warodi was a Xavante elder of Pimentel Barbosa and the central figure of a landmark dream-song performance. In his dream he met the creators, who appeared as jabiru storks and gave him songs carrying the narrative of the making of the world and of the Xavante. Staged over a day of preparation in the village plaza, the performance transforms the singers into the immortal höimana'u'õ, the past merging with the present as the deathless creators live again through the actions of the living. Warodi held that by performing and transmitting these songs the Xavante — and he himself — would attain immortality, standing as a mortal mediator between the living and the always-living.

Domains

• dream prophecy
• mediation with immortals

Powers

• dreams the encounter with the creators
• performs the dream-songs into being

Relations

• companion: Höimana'u'õWarodi communes with the immortals and, through song, seeks to join them.L. R. Graham, Performing Dreams (1995) (secondary)
• ally: Romhõsi'waHe receives songs from the creators.L. R. Graham, Performing Dreams (1995) (secondary)

Sources

• Warodi, an elder of Pimentel Barbosa, dreamed an encounter with the creators and received their songs; his performance of the dream in the village plaza transforms the singers into the jabiru-form immortals, and he held that performing the songs would secure immortality.: L. R. Graham, Performing Dreams: Discourses of Immortality Among the Xavante of Central Brazil (University of Texas Press, 1995) (secondary)