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Overview

The closing section of the Yaui/Tariana telling explicitly introduces a ritual figure as Izi’s companion. He tells youths beneath the Uaku tree to fast and threatens to eat them if they refuse. They will not obey; later he seizes and swallows them all. Their fathers arrange a large caxiri drinking gathering and invite him. After he has become thoroughly drunk, the elders burn him in revenge.

A Uatanhon palm grows from his ashes during the night and rises until its leaves touch the sky. His soul ascends through the palm’s centre in the form of an akuti-puru, glossed in Rodrigues’s note as a squirrel. The elders cut the tree down to prevent his return. The ending does not say the swallowed youths are restored. The figure is an unnamed companion rather than another name for Izi, who has already gone to the sky in the preceding narrative.

Swallows youths who refuse to fastIntoxicated and burned in revengePalm grows from ashesSoul ascends as a squirrel
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Origins & earliest records

Rodrigues1890, Izy ou Yurupari, labelled Yaui or Tariana, Uaupés. The collector explicitly calls his text an abridgment and says other associated accounts were kept secret; no individual teller is named.

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Records & interpretation

Complete Portuguese rendering114–118 plus title105 and its abridgment note read on original scans; selected interlinear pages113–114 also inspected. Preceding comparative essay93–100 read separately.

Selected bibliography

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    Poranduba amazonense, ou Kochiyma-uara porandub

    João Barbosa Rodrigues · 1890

    TaleII Izy ou Yurupari: complete Portuguese rendering114–118, title/abridgment note105; edition1890. Other interlinear pages not independently analyzed.

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  1. Primary textUFPE: Barbosa Rodrigues1890 original scanResearch access: 2026-10-05

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