E42. The appearance of female breasts (.61.62.)

Women have two breasts because the original breast was cut in half.

Napo, witoto.

Western Amazon. Napo: Carpenter 1992 [boy and girl rise in a column of smoke from the fire; their lazy mother follows them to heaven; they rock her chest (the origin of women's breasts); she falls, turns into a small fox (Eira barbaral); children become Morning and Evening Stars]: 125-129; Mersier 1979 [son and daughter of a lazy mother rise in the sky in a stream of smoke, take with them basket and parrot; come back; rise again; this time the mother follows them; they throw a piece of cloud into her chest; her chest splits, so women have two breasts; the mother falls, turns into panda (like a dog, eats bananas, papaya)]: 43-44.

NW Amazon. Uitoto (murui) [Jitobene sent his son to marry Ticone; she refused because the young man is ugly, unlike the chief's son; the father sent his son down the river to the sorcerers; he is fasting in the hut, urinating in in one place, where a fish was born; a sister secretly gave it to her brother, who lost his shamanic power; a woman came, joined him, they came to her parents; the young man warned that if he died it would rain in the sun, the rainbow would turn red; the wife's brothers tore it apart, ate it; the wife told me not to eat the heart and genitals; the father saw a red rainbow, went to heaven in a trance (where they took his son) took the skeleton, heart, genitals; the son orders them to be buried at the foot of a mountain tree, another to sow on the grave; the Heart of Jitobeo tree has grown; on it a huge worm with a tail to the ground; these are J.'s genitals; Chief Kanijone's daughters went down to the river, named everything in the water; the worm hit both of them with its tail, cut them, so the women had breasts; the girls began to catch fish, it made a hole for them in the genitals; this is how J. took revenge on women; since then they have been open to men; Chief K. gathered people to cut wood; those who tried to cut down died: axes bounced, the worm bit fatally; called two Jitoma ( one is Jitoma, the other is Fizido; the helper spirit told them to go to their aunt, the mistress of sleep; not to wake her up; from the blow she woke up, gave a bag, told them not to open it along the way; F. opened, the brothers fell asleep; Hitoma fell down on the rock, F. on the ground, the worms began to eat it; those who climbed inside became veins, thrown into the water â€" fish; when they woke up, the brothers returned to the mistress of sleep, gave the dead bird, caused a hurricane; the hostess asked him to stop, gave the bag again, taught him to replace the Thunder club with a soft wood (yarumo); the brothers also took the mirror (causes lightning); Thunder's daughter woke up her father, he grabbed a false one he broke his club; he still had a female club; the brothers used a club and a mirror to test; broke a tree; F. also died, H. revived him; the brothers put the worm to sleep on the tree, smashed it apart with thunder; the front became a tapir, the back manatee; they threw the club and mirror into the water, they became an electric eel and a stingray; F. died; H. found a hummingbird egg, F. was born again; the brothers came to Cricket's house (cucarron); F. sat down on the ground, was eaten by crickets; avenging his brother, H. made a house out of cotton wool and wax; set fire to the new house at the consecration festival; the possum had a burnt tail, the squirrel had its whole body (now dark); The cricket hid in the hole; H. cursed him, telling him to eat excrement]: Urbina 1986:47-65.