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Wari/Sol/Sun

  • Item identifier: 2018-33.046
  • Date: 17 Jul 2013
  • Contributors: José Ramírez Ríos (consultant); Kelsey Neely (researcher, donor)
  • Language: Yaminawa (yaa)
  • Place: Sepahua, Sepahua, Atalaya, Ucayali, Peru
  • Description: One .wav file, with accompanying .eaf annotation file. José Ramírez Ríos narrates the story of Wari, the sun. This story explains that the sun used to be very close to the earth and that people cooked with its heat alone. Fire was later acquired by a bird who stole an ember. The sun was a woman, and a man wished to have sex with her, until he saw that she had a strange vagina and changed his mind. The sun then went far away from the earth to its current location. This traditional narrative was volunteered by the speaker and performed extemporaneously.
  • Availability: Online access
  • Collection: Materials of the Yaminawa Language Documentation Project
  • Repository: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages
  • Suggested citation: Wari/Sol/Sun, 2018-33.046, in "Materials of the Yaminawa Language Documentation Project", California Language Archive, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/26535.

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