Andoque people
Andoque (or Andoke) are an indigenous people in Colombia. They live along the Aduche tributary of the Japurá River.
Language and culture
The Andoque language is a language isolate and is extinct in Peru.[1] The culture values "sacred plants" and a ritual called "Yuruparí." The "Yuruparí" ritual concerns their transcendent vision of cosmology. The Yuruparí ritual makes men initiates "die" then be "reborn" as members of the tribe. [2]
Religion and oral history
The various bee species originated from the nasal bone of Heron-of-the-Center when he was consumed by fire while wearing a jaguar-skin.[3] Tapirs of various colors originated from "the star people, who are bees and wasps", when they ate the body of a honey-drinking old man, who "fell into a trap" which had been dug by his own son.[4]
Notes
- ^ Ethnologue
- ^ Etnias de Colombia Archived February 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Jara 1995, p. 155
- ^ Jara 1995, p. 157
References
Fabio Jara : "Bees and Wasps : Ethno-Entomological Notions and Myths among the Andoke of the Caquetá River". In :- LATIN AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES JOURNAL, Vol. 11 (1995)
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