Story: Deer Spirit-IS2001
Historia: Cuento del venado-IS2001
Object Details
Subject Language | Hup |
Language PID(s) | ailla:119685 |
Title [Indigenous] | Mohõy pïnïg |
Language of Indigenous Title | jup |
Title | Story: Deer Spirit-IS2001 |
Language Community | |
Country(ies) | Brazil |
Place Created | Tat Deh, Rio Tiquié |
Date Created | 2001 |
Description [Indigenous] | |
Language of Indigenous Description | |
Description | The story of a woman who marries a deer spirit. She neglects her children, who poison the deer. His wife buries him in the stars, forming the Deer's Tomb star formation. Later, she gives birth to his child; the children take the baby deer out and he runs away. Their mother pursues them and they turn into currassow birds; she transforms into a small crying bird. See the 2011 version of the same story, also told by Isabel S. |
Genres | Myth |
Source Note | notebook 1.43; notebook 3.152 |
References | |
Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Epps, Patience (Researcher) Salustiano, Isabelle (Speaker) |
Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |