SACRED EXPERIENCE OF THE YE’KUANA

Authors

  • Eleusa Socorro do Carmo Ferreira PUC-SP Ciência da Religião

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1980-8305.2018i2p164-174

Keywords:

Cajuña, Wanadi, Odosha, Ättä, A’daja.

Abstract

The Ye’kuana live in the state of Amazon and Bolivar in Venezuela. That situated in the South of this country, a small group lives in the State of Roraima, Brazil. The Ye’kuana live in at all does not have breeding’s of churches. That is the reason why not very seldom they interpreted by the Occidentals as a non-religious people. The present script tries to understand and prove the sacred experience of the Ye’kuana, by means of two symbolical images: the Ättä, community house and A’daja, the backwoods. Mircea Eliade book, the sacred and the profane, helps to understand how they can connect with the world of the Supreme Being Wanadi living in the Earth that is in Odosha hand a Wanadi oppose. As a methodological resource the author privileges the years she lived together with the Ye’kuana.

References

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por Marco Antonio Sá

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Published

2018-12-20

How to Cite

Ferreira, E. S. do C. (2018). SACRED EXPERIENCE OF THE YE’KUANA. Último Andar, (32), 164–174. https://doi.org/10.23925/1980-8305.2018i2p164-174

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No. 32 (2018): Religiosidade Africana

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