Attawanadi

Attawanadi is the third of Wanadi's spirit-doubles (damodede) and the one most venerated by the Ye'kuana, the avatar closest to human beings. After the failures of the earlier creations, Attawanadi resolves to make 'a good earth for a new humanity' and travels across the land founding the villages and forming the distinct peoples the Ye'kuana know. His name is bound to the atta, the round communal house that the Ye'kuana understand as an image of the cosmos. Throughout his work he contends with Odosha, whose corruptions repeatedly spoil the world he is building.

Domains

• village founding
• re creation of the world

Powers

• to make a new and good earth and found its villages and peoples

Epithets

• AttawanadiMarc de Civrieux, Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, trans. David M. Guss (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980). (secondary)

Relations

• subordinate to: WanadiAttawanadi is the third and most venerated damodede or spirit-double of Wanadi, the one closest to human beings.Marc de Civrieux, Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, trans. David M. Guss (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980). (secondary)
• enemy: OdoshaAs Wanadi's agent on earth, Attawanadi continually contends against Odosha, whose corruptions repeatedly spoil his work of re-creation.Marc de Civrieux, Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, trans. David M. Guss (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980). (secondary)

Sources

• Attawanadi is the third and most venerated spirit-double of Wanadi, the village-founder who makes a new, good earth and forms the peoples and villages of the present world.: Marc de Civrieux, Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, trans. David M. Guss (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980; repr. 1997). (secondary); David M. Guss, To Weave and Sing: Art, Symbol, and Narrative in the South American Rain Forest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). (secondary)