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      Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle

      by Marc De Civrieux
      Published
      Jan 1980
      Main Genre
      Fantasy Fantasy
      Pages
      195
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      Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present. The first English edition of this book was published in 1980 to rave reviews. This edition contains a new foreword by David Guss, as well as Mediata, a detailed myth that recounts the origins of shamanism.

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      General Fiction Speculative Fiction

      Subgenres

      Fantasy

      Themes

      Mythology

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      First Edition Jan 1980 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780865470026 ISBN10 0865470022
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      Jun 2010 University of Texas Press ISBN10 B00GP3OHPA
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