Jaguarness

Hughes draws on this ancient concept and suggests that the jaguar calls up his rage to wear himself out from within to annihilate and free himself from his condition of enslavement — not to the bars but to his condition of 'jaguarness' which imprisons him […]

But this is a very good indication of what they think is happening when they are preparing curare. 'Jaguarness' is around, and it affects the hunters in their very being.

In our terms, it would be a representation of jaguarness.

This fundamental relationship—the foundation upon which the ABCs of “jaguarness” are built—remains something of a mystery.