J56A. Turning into pans .64.66.

Brother heroes turn into pots or pans, but only the older one can sit on fire long enough.

Spiking, zhuruna, shipibo.

Eastern Amazon. Twins come to a heavenly deity; the youngest is not his son; he dies or shows weakness in his trials; the elder revives him, helps him; if not otherwise: both are recognized as a deity. Kuñarima is the son of Kumafyari (=Marušawa, from morubišaba, "chief"); the beginning is not recorded; M.'s wife, Kamādu, came to Mukura's opossum, who climbed onto the roof above her hammock (and, apparently he conceived a second son, Aruβiata); as punishment for the twins breaking the water vessels from which rivers flowed out, M. decided to burn the brothers, fired behind them, but when they slept, the fire too stood; K. extinguished the fire with a feather panicle; then M. told the brothers to maintain the pan on which M.'s wife fried manioc flour; A. turned white and said that he could no longer stand it, but K. spat on him, he turned red again; they went swimming, A. could not dive because the water around him was boiling; K. blew, his brother cooled down; the brothers went hunting birds, M. warned to fear Awa; A. decided to be the first try to take the hook away from Av, became a fish, Ava and his friend caught it, fried it; K. became a wasp, collected blood and giblets, revived his brother; he himself became a fish, bit off, took the hook; the stork harpoons the fish with its beak; A. became a fish, the Stork harpooned it, ate it, K. revived it (like the previous episode); K. became a fish, dodged, Stork's beak got stuck in a tree, K. cut it off, brought it to his father, he, like other trophies of his sons, gave it to his wife; an old woman with a sharp leg sits by the path, asks passers-by to take out the sand flea, pierces him with her foot; A. is pierced, the old woman fried him, ate him, his brother collected blood, revived him; when the old woman asked him to take out the flea and struck, he dodged, his leg was stuck in a tree, he cut it off, brought it to his father; the brothers came to Adji ("wild"), they do not have an anus, they defecate through their mouths; K. showed how to defecate, they also wanted to themselves anus; K. began to pierce their anuses, killing them; A. did it less well, those placed on the stakes began to scream, others ran away; the brothers fried the dead, brought meat to his father; M. was happy, ate meat with his sons, gave a hammock for each]: Nimuendaju 1920:1016-1022; juruna [Sinaá's father is a giant jaguar; like S. himself, he sees a pair of eyes on the back of his head; he conceived S. by sticking his penis into the hole where S.'s mother urinated; y S. has three sons, the youngest is not his, their mother conceived him with an animal; S. tests his sons, wanting to make sure that they are his children; there is no water, the pigeon juriti brought it, once did not bring it; the eldest son decided to go break a container of water; S. warned that there was a dangerous fish in the water; the youngest son broke it, but did not bounce to the side, the fish swallowed it, his legs were sticking out of his mouth, the fish was rushing with a stream of water; the brothers were running, dams are made, the stream blows them away; the last one was not demolished, the elder brother snatched the youngest out of the mouth of the fish, revived it; he lost his memory, he had to be taught everything again; S. warned his sons to be careful with the stork Jabiru; the brothers decide to grab his beak; the youngest turns into a fish, swims up, is swallowed; the elder turned into a fly, collected blood from his beak, revived the youngest from it; he became a fish himself, swam, became human, broke off his beak, brought it to his father; S. warns that there is someone who can cut it in half; they come to that man's house; he asks them to take sand fleas out of his leg; the youngest comes up, that kicks him with his foot, cutting him in half; the elder turns into a wasp, collects blood, revives the youngest from it; approaches that creature; when he tries to kick, breaks off his leg, brings it to his father; S. warns that there are dangerous wild Indians; brothers find them; the youngest turns into pirarara fish to bite off the hook, caught, fried, eaten; the elder turns into a wasp, picks up blood, revives youngest; becomes a piranha, bites off, takes the fisherman's hook, brings it to his father]: Villas Boas, Villas Boas 1973:232-236.

Montagna - Jurua. Shipibo: Gebhaert-Sayer 1987, No. 2 [a single boy uses kalebasu instead of his wife; she becomes a woman, has three sons; they sit on a tree and eat fruit; Tapir comes constantly and asks for fruit for themselves; they throw the unripe fruit at his head; he knocks on the trunk, making it fat; brothers go down as ants; follow the tapir's trail; ask his excrement or the grown ones of these trees when the tapir passed; a year, six months, a month, ten days ago; he is here; the eldest turns into an ant, climbs into the tapir's anus, hurts the heart; brothers fresh the carcass; each tries to be a pot to cook meat; only the elder can withstand the heat for a long time; they ask the Duck to transport them across the river; she replies that her boat is small; Cayman asks not to step on his head; the younger brother comes, Cayman grabs him by the leg, drags him under water; the Sloth drains the river, the brothers take the youngest's corpse out of the caiman's womb; his leg is not enough; they shoot at the sky, make a chain of arrows; Termite and Little Squirrel are afraid to climb, Big Squirrel comes back, says the sky is good; the turtle turns the chain into a ladder; the brothers take Cayman's head and brother's corpse, go up to heaven]: 350- 351; Roe 1982, No. 7 [an old man (this is Tapir) makes a boat under a Guava tree; children sitting on a tree throw fruits at him; the old man kicks him with his foot, the tree grows huge; children turn into ants, they go down on leaves, then become human again; follow the old man's trail, asking for directions from the genip trees; find more and more fresh tapir droppings; one became an ant, climbed the tapir in the ass, cut his heart ; the tapir died; one turned into a pot, meat was cooked in it; everyone tasted it, but only the strongest one could withstand the fever; they had to cross the river; the man sent a boat - a caimana; sitting on his back, brothers they thought what to become, they chose birds; one decided to become a panguana bird; on the coast, the Cayman bit off both his legs; Panguana is part of Orion, without legs; all turned into Pleiades, Hyades, Orion's Belt], 8 [ at night, the young man masturbates to the calebass; his mother began to put him one at a time and throw him away; two boys came out of the broken calebas; they ask who killed their mother; the grandmother replies that Lightning; they killed the spirit- Lightning; they ask again if they threaten to kill the grandmother herself; she replies that Tapir killed; they found Tapir from fresh litter; the youngest became an ant, climbed into Tapira's anus, cut off his heart; the elder cut the tapir stomach, let the younger one go; the youngest turned into a pot to cook meat; the elder puts it on the fire and then in the water; the meat is cooked; the Sloth promised to call a bird that will transport the brothers across the river; the bird asks not to step on the bow of her boat; the eldest listened, the youngest stepped on the shore, the boat turned into a caiman, bit off his leg; the Sloth dried the river with a magic spear, the elder cut off the caiman's jaw, took out his brother's leg; when they return to their grandmother, the brothers ask again who killed their mother; she replies that they will receive an answer in heaven; the brothers climbed a chain of arrows, the eldest in his hands is the jaw of Caiman, Hyada] : 62-63, 63-66.