Glossary — Y
- yachuach
- a circle of stone jutting out of a tlaxtli
court wall a meter short of its lip; a goal scored by sending the olli
through the center of that ring, said single shot transcending the point
tally, abruptly and without recourse (language=Olmec)
- yaguarete
- jaguar as it's called in the 2.47 million-acre Yungas ancient rain forest
of Argentina by their Guarani natives [cue/www=http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2553295805-386
- yaju
- wild beast (language=Kyotsu-go)
- Yeibichai
- a Navajo supernatural represented by a masked dancer in an initiation or
curative ceremony according to Webster's (language=Diné;
pronunciation=YAY-beh-chai). "Pueblo masking influenced neighboring
tribal dances such as the curative yeibichai of the Navajo."
[Encyclopædia Britannica; see cue/www=britannica.com]
Translates as "Nightway," a 9-day ceremony where a patient is
treated for mental problems; features sandpainting in the last 4 days; 9th
night climax with a drama illustrating an elaborate myth. [Dutton, Bertha P.
American Indians of the Southwest. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press. 1983] "Yei" is the name of the gods who come masked, then
are revealed at the end as only human.
- Yishmaelites
- literally, a descendant of Yishmael (language=Ivrit), the outcast
son of Abraham and Hagar, according to the book of Genesis in the Torah;
figuratively, an outcast or pariah [Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary;
see cue/www=Merriam-Webster OnLine]
- yojin
- "vigilance", "care (be careful [of], take care, guard [against])" (language=Kyotsu-go); on Yeibichai, a combine contracted to protect the Yeibichai Collective against internal and external threats, filling in where anshin combines do not provide services
