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Narrator: Clara Santi Grefa
Interviewed by Tod D. Swanson
Clara Santi Grefa, "Waranga Sisa."
Transcription English translation and analysis
Video and subtitles in English and Pastaza Quichua.
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Tod Swanson, "Clara Santi Grefa, "Waranga Sisa."' Youtube video. 5:03. September 18, 2015. https://youtu.be/MlZAlf5cLMw
Clara Santi Grefa, "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. Recorded and translated by Tod Swanson during the Andes and Amazon Field School.
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Tod D. Swanson, "Clara Santi Grefa, 'Hearing the Jilucu (Grand Potoo bird) Makes Me Sad."' Youtube video. 3:13 May 2, 2012. https://youtu.be/svVQ_P4H0wY
Clara Santi Grefa, "Paushi Warmi Song."
Video in Pastaza Quichua. No subtitles. Clara Santi sings "I am a Paushi Warmi" and reflects on the Wattled Currasow (Crax globulosa) or pasha. She says the paushi is a womanizer who steals the women of the wishak (another species of currasow)
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Tod Swanson, "Clara Santi Grefa, "Paushi Warmi Song."' Youtube video. 5:49. May 12, 2013. https://youtu.be/PjWvr48wAuA
Clara Santi Grefa, "Song of Atun Sikuanga and Gau Sikuanga."
Video in Pastaza Quichua. No subtitles. Clara Santi sings about how the large toucan steals Gau sikuanga's wife and talks about the relations between the birds.
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Tod Swanson, "Clara Santi Grefa, "Song of Atun Sikuanga and Gau Sikuanga."' Youtube video. 6:52. May 12, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADzAywiK_ZE
Clara Santi Grefa, "On Gau Sikuanga."
Video in Pastaza Quichua. No subtitles. Clara Santi sings about how the large toucan steals Gau sikuanga's wife and talks about the relations between the birds.
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Tod Swanson, "Clara Santi Grefa, "On Gau Sikuanga."' Youtube video. 7:53. May 12, 2013. https://youtu.be/xujN_RrPeZU
Clara Santi Grefa, "They Drink This Plant to Become Jaguars."
Video in Pastaza Quichua. No subtitles.
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Tod Swanson, "Clara Santi Grefa, "They Drink This Plant to Become Jaguars."' Youtube video. 1:56. December 15, 2016. https://youtu.be/SjiwUZGBUkk
Clara Santi Grefa, "Simayuka: Love Medicine."
Video in Pastaza Quichua. No subtitles.
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Tod Swanson, "Clara Santi Grefa, "Simayuka: Love Medicine"' Youtube video. 2:18. December 15, 2016. https://youtu.be/tNCzvW4w2jA