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IYARINA
Napo-Pastaza, Ecuador
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Scientific name
Eulodia Dagua - Iluku and the Moon
Bélgica Dagua - Seeing Iluku in Daylight Portends Death
Clara Santi - Hearing the Jilucu (Grand Potoo bird) Makes Me Sad.
"Llakichina"- (dar pena, to cause sadness, love, empathy) is the stated purpose of many Amazonian songs and stories. "Llakichina" is also the effect that hearing the voices of birds and animals often produces in traditional older people Here a Pastaza Kichwa woman shows the vine through which Mother Jilucu tried to follow her brother/husband the moon into the sky before she fell and turned into the bird that cries when she sees the moon.
Photo by: © Ken Oeser
Nyctibius griseus
Family:
Nyctibiidae
English:
Common potoo
Spanish:
nictibio urutaú
Kichwa:
Jiluku
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