G19. Burned men bring plants. 68.72.

After a conflict in the community of first ancestors, a group of men or boys (paresis: boy and girl) burn in a fire (jump over it, etc.). As a result, people acquire cultivated plants, mainly corn.

Southern Amazon. Vaura [corn from ashes]: Schultz, Chiara 1971:125 -127; kamayura [corn, pumpkins, ash peppers]: Münzel 1973:169-174; bakairi [boys have been initiating for so long, that they committed suicide; returning relatives blamed themselves, lit a fire and jumped into it with their clothes off; the soul of the yawíti leader appeared to people and taught them how to plant corn and others cultivated plants and also perform a corn dance]: Oberg 1953:77; paresi [various varieties of corn, beans, sweet potatoes, etc.]: Steinen in Magaña 1988a, No. 151:264; bororo: Wilbert, Simoneau 1983, No. 68 [contrary to the ban, Arogiareudo's woman sleeps with her husband before going for honey; therefore, the honey she brings to the men's home thickens (always like this from now on); A. spies on , how men make necklaces from shells; then men jump into the fire, fly out in brightly colored birds; the one who jumps to the edge of the fire turns yellow mako, because the heat is not enough for his feathers became red (birds used to exist, but did not have color); Uruku, cotton, and pumpkin grow at the site of A.'s burning], 69 [four young men they jump over the fire, the fifth falls into the fire, as the sixth stepped on his heels; those who jump turn into brightly colored birds; the ashes grow the types of corn that named the first four; the fifth said he was corn made of bones and meat, but this corn did not grow because he could not jump over]: 132-136.

Chaco. Nivakle [people flee to escape the jaguar; one woman stays in the village with her grandmother because she does not want to go with her unloved husband; an unknown man comes and brings fried man; when she asks water, the woman sends him to the spring, spies on him; sees him turn into a jaguar; on the advice of his grandmother, runs away in zigzags; finds people, the stalker jaguar is killed and burned; men continue the interrupted game - they shoot bows at a tight rope; ask the children to go to their mothers to bring their husbands a drink; women do not comply with this request; offended men make a fire, they jump into it, screaming who is going to become what kind of bird; they fly out of the fire in the form of waterfowl, fly to the lake, drink there to their heart's content; now they send thunder and lightning. They also brought people seeds of cultivated plants - corn, beans, pumpkins]: Wilbert, Simoneau 1987b, No. 88:216-218.