JAGUAR

The word comes from the guaraní jaguarete. “jaguar” – and the suffix “ete”, which means “beast of prey”. The word entered English presumably via the Amazonian trade language “Tupinambá”. Revered by every tribe from the indigenous peoples of the United States, for some Native Americans, the word meant, “he who kills with one blow” and in the mythology of the pre-Columbian America, the black jaguar was widely seen as a god in Peru, Mexico, or Guatemala, to name a few