Story: Deer Spirit-IS2001
Historia: Cuento del venado-IS2001
Object Details
| Subject Language | Hup |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119685 |
| Title [Indigenous] | Mohõy pïnïg |
| Language of Indigenous Title | jup |
| Title | Story: Deer Spirit-IS2001 |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | Brazil |
| Place Created | Tat Deh, Rio Tiquié |
| Date Created | 2001 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | The story of a woman who marries a deer spirit. She neglects her children, who poison the deer. His wife buries him in the stars, forming the Deer's Tomb star formation. Later, she gives birth to his child; the children take the baby deer out and he runs away. Their mother pursues them and they turn into currassow birds; she transforms into a small crying bird. See the 2011 version of the same story, also told by Isabel S. |
| Genres | Myth |
| Source Note | notebook 1.43; notebook 3.152 |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Epps, Patience (Researcher) Salustiano, Isabelle (Speaker) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
