C17. Fire pit for humans .68.69.72.
Themen of the ancestral community kill most people and/or themselves at the stake or in a fire pit.
Southern Amazon. Kamayura [a woman's pubic hair used to be red as toucan feathers; all men have gone fishing; the person left at home makes arrows, wants to pluck her pubic hair to get ahead of the arrows; all women refuse, he forcibly cuts off his brother's wife's hair; when he returns, the men went to burn the vegetation on the site, everyone burned down; the woman who cut off his hair only burned; the women kicked him out, he became a forest in spirit (Mamaé); at the place where men burned, corn, calebasses, peppers grew; Kwat (Sun) and Yaú (Month) came, pulled out the women's red pubic hair, attached it to toucans, which became red; women have grown black hair]: Münzel 1973:169-174; vaura [three brothers jump into the fire, the fourth behind them]: Schultz, Chiara 1971:125-127; bakairi [boys; theirs relatives jump after them]: Oberg 1953:77; Iranian [a star goes down to two young men, sleeps with them; takes them to heaven, cannibals live there; young men hunt, one wounded the beast with an arrow in the knee, another killed; other animals came, ate the victim and ate the one who injured; the second was invited to play ball, hit with a heavy ball, male stars ate him; the star wife tells them she saw a lot of wild pigs; male stars went hunting, did not find them clearer, jumped into the fire, turned into monkeys of different species; everyone's color depending on who was burned; only women remain in the sky Stars]: Moura 1960:58-59; bororo [men jump into fire and turn into birds]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 68:132-134.
Araguaia. The first humans die in the fire; the current ones are descended from birds that have become women. Karazha [two men make a fire in a pit, throw all people there, then kill each other; 1) a young man escapes, asks a parrot girl to marry him; 2) two boys escape; find two Parrots when they cook in their house as girls; boys grow up to marry Parrots; 3) as in (2); two young men hunting in the woods escape]: Baldus 1937:216-217; 1952-1953:210- 211; Ehrenreich 1891:39-40; tapirape [most people die in the fire; two men remain, Jacques, the Parrot Girl, the Mutum Girl; new people are descending from them]: Baldus 1970 [people die in the community house in a fire pit; survivors at this time were sleeping in a large vessel in an old hut]: 355; Wagley 1977 [people die in a world fire]: 176.
Chaco. Chamacoco: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, No. 69 [Initiated young men secretly eat eels; a young shaman weaves an eel's spine into his hair; a grandmother looks in his hair, his little sister , says that there is an eel; the old man pretends to be asleep, but hears everything, tells others; the old men throw all the young men into the fire, the shaman runs away; runs away with his grandmother from the village; throws them on the way pursuers a snail, it turns into a river; throws fish into the river, piranhas appear in the river, devour pursuers; grandmother and grandson turn into woodpeckers], 70 [initiated young men ate eels; one weaved an eel's spine into his hair; at home, his sister looked in his head, noticed fish bones; the old man heard it; the old men threw the young men into the fire, the young shaman flew away in the form of a bird; ran together with his grandmother; threw a straw decorated with ribbons through which the shaman blows diseases, it turned into a lake with piranhas, who ate the pursuers; the grandmother became a white woodpecker, grandson of a capybara] : 234-241, 242-245; chorote [the hawk lures the first ancestors to come together and places them in an earthen furnace; they become different animals]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1985, No. 69-71:129-145; nivacle: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 88 [the girl was abandoned by her husband, she went to her grandmother in an abandoned village; the jaguar came in the form of a man, asked for a drink; she did not give it, he went to the river, the girl saw how he became a jaguar; ran in zigzags, ran to the men, who killed and burned the jaguar; shot at the target, sent the children to ask their wives for water, they did not give them; lit a fire, rushed at it, becoming birds of different kinds; they flew to the lake, got drunk, ate fish; these birds live in the sky, bring thunderstorms; they also brought corn seeds, beans, pumpkins], 89 [men shot at the target, sent to women for they did not give water; they jumped into the fire, became thunderbirds that brought rain], 92 [the boys shot at the target, send their younger brothers to ask their mothers for food and water, they refuse, advise them to go to drink to the river; the old shaman Gray Lizard takes feathers from the arrows of young men, attaches them to their hands, they turn into birds, fly to the river; they are called thunderbirds, just like those thunderbirds that they used to bring rain and thunderstorm], 93 [men shoot at the target, send boys to women for water, they refuse; the Gray Lizard made a fire, jumped at it, became a gray lizard; offended by women and thirsty, he was followed by the Black Vulture, the Common Vulture, and then all the birds, led by the Royal Vulture; when the women brought water, only the boy was left; asked where they were were earlier], 94 [the young man sent his younger brother to his mother for water, she refused; all the young men decided to become birds, each of their own species; they glued feathers from arrow poles to their bodies, flew away as birds, mothers in vain offered them water; Axtitá killed the royal vulture; everyone is trying to peck a hole in his body, but only Woodpecker succeeds; the birds are smeared with vulture blood, coals and ash, finding the current coloring; when the world turned upside down, birds and thunderbirds were in the sky; one person ate the fruits of the caraguat all, he, his wife and all the people of the village became bakers and also found themselves in the sky; bakers on the earth is their relatives]: 216-218, 219, 227-229, 230-232, 232-242; poppies: Wilbert, Simoneau 1991a, No. 6 [playing, the boys smashed a woman's jug with a ball; upset, dug a hole, made a fire; shouting, that they did not like their parents, they jumped into it; the youngest named Flycatcher stayed, buried a hole, watered it for several days, the burnt ones came out of it in the form of storks of various types; went to the village, and then flew away; mothers they grieved for them; they wanted to kill the Flycatcher because he did not tell them what had happened, but he turned into a cormorant, flew away with the others], 7 [the boys walked on stilts, one broke the old woman's jug; she advised them to play away; they dug a hole, made a fire, said that their parents were always angry with them, jumped into the fire; the youngest flycatcher remained; the elder taught him how to bury a hole, water him, to lie to adults that the boys went to another village; the burned ones came out as birds, their mothers shouted after them in vain that they would no longer be angry; they wanted to kill the Flycatcher, he became a cormorant; people wanted kill that old woman, she ran away, became a capybara; her husband became a caiman], 8 [playing, the children broke the pot with the ball, the owner scolded them; they said their mothers did not like them, dug a hole, lit a fire, jumped into him; the youngest buried it, watered it; the boys got out with birds, flew away; the parents were angry at the youngest that he kept silent, he flew away with a cormorant]: 28-29, 30-32, 33-34.