ABSTRACT
When you first have a child, you can’t throw a liana like this. If you do, the child will cry at night. When he is born, like it’s today, tomorrow you don’t go working. If you do, the child won’t grow up—he’ll die. Don’t even take hold of a palha [palm leaf for thatching], he’ll cry a lot. You have to avoid eating agouti, or paca. Piranha, too. Paca, agouti, deer, monkey too. All you eat is peccary—white-lipped or collared. Tinamou you can eat. And tapir, too, you can eat. You go fishing, but you don’t clean the fish, or when the child grows up he’ll throw up a lot. You don’t go fooling around with lianas, either, so that he won’t cry, too….
