name
Nunkui
noon-KOO-ee
nuːnˈkuːiːListen
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Syllable breakdown
Nunkui
Name meaning and origin
- Origin
- Shuar (Ecuador/Peru)
- Meaning
- a Shuar feminine name derived from Nunkui, the powerful earth goddess of Shuar cosmology who governs the fertility of the garden and the growth of manioc; Nunkui is the most important female spiritual being in Shuar belief, understood to reside in the soil of the cultivated garden and to bless or withhold the harvest according to the moral conduct of the women who tend the plants; women named Nunkui are seen as being under the particular protection and power of this earth deity
- Gender
- female
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