{"id":4650,"date":"2020-08-22T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T12:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/?page_id=4650"},"modified":"2022-12-27T22:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T22:12:47","slug":"mythologie-karib","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/karib-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"Karib-Warao mythology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-chibchans-2040\/\" role=\"button\"><br>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to the Cultural Group<br>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/book-libraries\/\" role=\"button\">Library<\/a><br>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kalinago\" role=\"button\"><br>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tWiki<br>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseprofile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/karib-mythology\/#Mythologie-Karib-Warao\" >Karib-Warao mythology<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/karib-mythology\/#Mythologie-Karib-Warao-textes\" >Karib-Warao mythology (texts)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mythologie-Karib-Warao\"><\/span>Karib-Warao mythology<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/\">Mythology<\/a> Karib-Warao bring together the following peoples of Central America and the West Indies: <strong>Kali&#039;nas, Galibi, Karib, Kalinagos, Caribbean, Akawaio, Arawak, Warao<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Kali&#039;nas<\/strong> (formerly <strong>Galibis<\/strong> Where <strong>Karib<\/strong>) are an Amerindian ethnic group that can be found in several countries of the Caribbean coast of South America. They are of the Caribbean language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Kalinagos<\/strong>, <strong>Caribbean<\/strong>, <strong>Karibs<\/strong> Where <strong>Caribs<\/strong>, are Amerindian populations originating from the north of Venezuela who migrated to the Caribbean islands towards the end of the 9th<sup>e<\/sup>\u00a0century of our era. The international name of &quot;Caribbean&quot; was definitively assigned to them after the arrival of Europeans in the New World.<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Akawaio<\/strong> are an important subgroup of the Kapon ethnic group (Karib subgroup) spread over the territories of Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela and living around Mount Roraima.<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>Cannibal originates from an Arawak term, caniba, deformation of cariba, a word by which the Indians <a href=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/mythes-et-legendes-macro-carib-2030\/\">Caribbean<\/a> of the Lesser Antilles were self-appointed. In their mouths and in their language, the word meant, it seems, &quot;bold&quot;, &quot;brave man&quot;. On the other hand, for the <strong>Arawaks <\/strong>from Cuba, (Greater Antilles), victims of repeated and bloody incursions by their enemies Carib, who kept going up from island to island, always further north, the term cariba carried an extremely negative connotation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Warao<\/strong> are a large Native American ethnic group of nearly 30,000 people, spread across the coastal territories of Venezuela and Guyana. The Warao speak Warao which is an agglutinating language.<br \/>The term <em>Warao<\/em> in Warao language would mean according to anthropologists specializing in Amerindian language <em>Wa<\/em>\u00a0: &quot;Man \/ navigator&quot; and <em>Rao<\/em>\u00a0: &quot;Boat \/ canoe&quot; or <em>Wa<\/em>\u00a0: &quot;Man \/ inhabitant and <em>Rao<\/em>\u00a0: &quot;Swamp \/ lagoon&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/AlphaOmega-e1602613368367.png\" alt=\"Karib-Warao mythology\" width=\"25\" height=\"26\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mythologie-Karib-Warao-textes\"><\/span>Karib-Warao mythology (texts)<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\">Karib-Warao Open Book: Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/nam\/sa\/lmbg\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legends and Myths of the Aboriginal Indians of British Guiana<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\">Free book Karib-Warao: An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacred-texts.com\/nam\/sa\/aflg\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\">Myths and Legends Akawaio<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta-religion.com\/World_Religions\/Ancient_religions\/Flood_myths\/flood_myths_south_america.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flood Myths<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"\">Carib Myths and Legends<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oocities.org\/thetropics\/shores\/9253\/legends3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The First People<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Cultural Group Library Wiki Karib-Warao Mythology The Karib-Warao Mythology includes the following peoples of Central America and the West Indies\u2026 <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4650","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26433,"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4650\/revisions\/26433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mythslegendes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}