Mythical race of aquatic people living in underwater cities in the Amazon Basin
The Yacuruna are a mythical water people of the Amazon basin who live in beautiful underwater cities, often at the mouths of rivers. Belief in the Yacuruna is most prominently found among indigenous people of the Amazon.[1] The term is derived from the Quechua language, yaku ("water") and runa ("man").
^Beyer, Stephan (2009). Singing to the Plants. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 318–321. ISBN 978-0-8263-4730-5.
The Yacuruna are a mythical water people of the Amazon basin who live in beautiful underwater cities, often at the mouths of rivers. Belief in the Yacuruna...
parts of the Miocene. Only a single species of Pebanista is known: P. yacuruna. Pebanista was described based on MUSM 4017, a nearly complete skull recovered...
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close relative of the South Asian river dolphin. The type species is P. yacuruna. Tohoraonepu Gen. et sp. nov Corrie & Fordyce Oligocene Kokoamu Greensand...
humans and is never sated. Werecoyote – A canine therianthropic creature. Yacuruna – Hairy beings with deformed feet and their heads turned backwards. Zombie...
hystricognath rodent. Neoepiblema N. sp. A hystricognath rodent. Pebanista P. yacuruna Rio Napo. A nearly complete skull. A platanistid river dolphin. Pseudoprepotherium...
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