F26. The reason for menstruation: the loss of sacred objects. 19.62.

The transition of sacred sound instruments (whistles, horns) from women to men is associated with the onset of menstruation in women.

Melanesia. Gambadi (kwawara) [Tiv'r comes from the west; his wife Engu has a defect that prevents her from copulating normally; T. manages to get pregnant, but she does not have a baby, but a whistle; T. is surprised, for the first time Hearing the sound; consistently sends the birds to steal it; E., bending down and spreading her legs, sweeps the village, but every time the bird tries to snatch the whistle out of her vagina, he sits down; the Karara parrot almost succeeded, his feathers turned red with blood; a little bird snatches out a whistle, brings K.; and E. bleeds from her vagina (the origin of menstruation)]: Williams 1969:307-308; keraki [like gambadi; the first whistle is hairy; Kambel snatches it himself, birds are not mentioned]: Williams 1969:308.

NW Amazon. Desana [kidnapped]: Brüzzi 1994 [+ smoke sacred cigars]: 235-240; Kumu, Kenhiri 1980:123-125; Reichel-Dolmatoff 1971 [(=1968:20); on the rapids of Wainambi, the sun father committed incest with her underage daughter; blood splashed, women have been menstruating since then; the stones left prints of the girl's buttocks, red blood marks and a hole (where she urinated); the witness was bari buge ( bari uahti) is a small insect; when he heard the daughter of the Sun laugh, he came closer; when he saw the act, he became human, made the first urupari horn to announce what he saw to everyone; one day, when the men went to hide the flutes after the game, the women watched, took their instruments; when they then touched their bodies with their hands, their armpits and pubic hair grew; the men came back, the women seduced them, although were the same fratria as them]: 169-170; macuna [yurupari instruments (Je) were held by Rômikmu (female shaman) and other women; four Ayawa brothers stole them and hid them along the bank in the river; A woman hid one urupari in her vagina since the women were menstruating; R. looked for one of A. in her head, noticed rotten leaves (they remained when he dived into the water), guessed that the brothers they stole yurupari; A. suggested that people live forever; R. - to grow old, die; snakes said they would not die, but change their skin; grasshoppers (grillos) - that they did not need females for reproductions of their own kind]: Århem et al. 2004:449; tatuyo [Pohe-pino (pohe = anaconda) devours boys undergoing initiation; people burn it, a palm tree grows from the ashes, from it is made by sacred horns and flutes; they are hidden in the water; the father asks his son to get up early and go to play; it is not the lazy son that comes, but his sister, who hears the conversation; the father chases her, but she hides her instruments in his body, goes up the river, performs rituals with women, and forces men to perform women's duties; in the upper reaches of the river, her father catches up with her; as punishment, he opens her vagina; since then since women have periods, and men own sacred instruments; now she is Romi-Kumu, the Pleiades; she sits at the mouth of the river with her legs together, makes spills; her movements cause earthquakes; her movements cause earthquakes; to her Shamans fly in between her legs]: Bidou 1972:67; 1983:36-40; Tucano: Fulop 1956 [the first sacred flutes could take the form of humans or birds; embodied the supreme deity Yepf Uake, Yupuri Bauro gave them to people; they were hidden in boxes in the guise of birds, each with a brother and sister in each couple; women were not allowed to see them; Miriapura Turikaro has two wives, they are sisters; YuB predicted that from the youngest There will be two twin girls, and the eldest son; the children were born and became adults in a day; MT, with his wives and children, went to Maloka in the sky, in the sun; YuB told him to smoke there to know the future by smoke; if it's a bad omen, let him leave the family in heaven; divination was bad, but they did not do the right thing, YuB decided it was good; the sisters heard the voices of the flute birds, went to see; flutes for a short time turned into people in rich clothes, the girls fainted; then into the birds, flew away with thunder; the sisters made new flutes out of a pashiuba palm tree that grew from the ashes of YUB; YuB cursed MT for everything ruined his son, cut off his son's head, but could not kill his daughters; took him to Diawi, let all Pamuri Mahsa go there and closed the door; the fish made flutes sound; the sisters drove all the men out of the village; Yepa Wake made new flutes, gave them to men; punished women by putting flutes in their vaginas]: 355-366 (retelling in Bolens 1967:65-66); Schaden 1959:153-154; letuama: Palma 1984:56 [sacred flutes Yurupari was four; four Ayas brothers tell their aunt that they go to extinguish fish with poison, ask for them to teach her; when she entered the water, one of the brothers became an anaconda, grabbed her; the brothers spread her legs, measured vagina and abdomen, according to this model, holes were made in the sacred flutes; their aunt, the mistress of the world, is upset], 77-80 [Ayas brothers did not know how to play the sacred flutes; women could, took the flutes to the forest, became play; brothers attacked women, took away flutes; women were scared, thought they had attacked forest spirits, ran home; one woman hid the flute in her vagina, this is the only flute that survived for women and the other three for men; when attacked by a man aruñarun (?) Calebasu with coca, blood has flowed; women have been menstruating ever since]; (cf. vacuenai) [Amaru is one of Iñápirríkuli's aunts; he is going to shoot him with his powerful wind gun, guarded by two mako parrots; he is making a copy of a balsa gun, replaces the original; A. comes to Mako's cry, but does not notice the substitution; comes to I., shoots, only grass seeds fly out of the gun, I. dodges; shoots in A.'s groin; blood flows through her legs, A. menstruates; otherwise men would menstruate and women would have penises]: Hill 1993, No. 1:62).