As you will read in this blog, the Shuar people are animists to a certain point. Everything has a spirit. The Wakani Birds, or spirit birds, are a form of Shuar spirit culture. The Shuar shamans would send in this kind of bird to frighten an enemy and make him vulnerable, and then go in for the attack himself, with Tsentsak, which are pathogenic darts or projectiles. These Wakani birds have also been given Tsentsak by a shaman, to carry and launch from its beak into enemies. This shows that the Shuar shamans had a very tight connection with these birds that they were able to get them to do such a specific request.
The physical aspects of these Wakani birds are they could be any sort of small bird. This means no large birds such as hawks or eagles.
The Shuar also use birds as a means for survival, or in simpler terms, they usually hunt them.
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