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Overview
Rodrigues labels this short account the Dacé or Tukano version from the Uaupés, also called Ukairy in the heading. A young woman asks to join elders taking ipadu. They leave her in their house; she subsequently becomes pregnant without intercourse. Twice the elders blow upon her at long intervals, but she does not give birth. While crossing a river, a traíra bites her belly, and the child is born.
The elders take the child into the forest so that his mother cannot see him or know his location. He grows there. Later he appears intermittently with fire coming from his head, hands and body, making noise with his face concealed. The elders tell women not to look at him. The narrative ends with that prohibition; it does not describe a woman breaking it, a resulting punishment, or a return to his mother.
The surrounding essay argues against simply equating every Yurupari tradition with the Christian devil and distinguishes several uses of the name. Its proposed Asian origins and physiological explanation of other narratives are Rodrigues’s interpretations, not established explanations for this birth account. The printed story supplies neither a personal teller’s name nor a specific recording date; the collector’s linguistic presentation and Portuguese rendering mediate the witness.
Origins & earliest records
Poranduba amazonense,1890, Yurupari taleI,pp.101–103; following104 is blank. The source’s Dacé/Tukano and Uaupés/Ukairy labels are retained rather than expanded into a pan-Amazonian identity.
Records & interpretation
Complete printed101–103 and blank104 inspected visually, including interlinear Portuguese glosses, full Portuguese rendering and two explanatory notes. Complete preceding Os Yuruparis essay93–100 also read; independent linguistic analysis not claimed.
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Poranduba amazonense, ou Kochiyma-uara porandub
Complete YurupariI, Dacé/Tukano version,pp.101–103; preceding essay93–100 fully read. Portuguese rendering used; no individually named teller.
Family, evolution & connections
Unnamed maiden of the Dacé/Tukano-labelled telling
The young woman becomes pregnant without intercourse and gives birth when a fish bites her abdomen. The narrator identifies her as the child’s mother; neither the fish nor the elders are identified as biological fathers.
Izi / Yurupari (Yaui-Tariana account)
Both printed witnesses separate the boy’s growing years from ordinary maternal access and describe an adult emitting fire. The Dacé/Tukano-labelled account uses fish-assisted birth after unexplained pregnancy; the Yaui/Tariana-labelled account gives fruit-eating and invisible nursing. They remain separate tellings, not a combined family biography or evidence of direct borrowing.
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- Primary textUFPE: Barbosa Rodrigues1890 original scanResearch access: 2026-10-05
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