J53a1. Method of revenge: lure into smoke and fire.
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The children of the murdered man kill the children of the murderer, luring them to a place where they die from heat or smoke.
Kathlamet, Klamath, Kato, Lassik, Sinckion, Pomo, Maidu, Nisenan, Mountain Miwok, Chukchansi Yokuts, Northern Paiute, Northern Shoshone, Gosiute, Western Keres, Chamacoco, Mataco.
Coast - Plateau. Katlamet [Robin and Salmon-berry are sisters; the former has five daughters, the latter has sons; the sisters go for berries, Robin searches inside Salmon-berry's head, wants to eat her; Salmon-berry warns her sons that they must run away if she is eaten; the youngest sees Robin throwing Salmon-berry's breasts into the fire; Robin's brothers invite Robin's children to play steam room , suffocate them with heat; arrange corpses as if they were alive and smiling; run through the underground year; Robin first asks the dog where the children ran, then finds a passage; the Crane carries the brothers across the river; stretches out his legs like a bridge; when Robin steps into a narrow place, he throws her into the water; the Crow pecks out her genitals; she comes to life, paints her belly with blood; asks different trees if the coloring suits her; Willow, Cottonwood, Fir, Thuja answer that they do not; Alder, Cedar, Spruce, two kinds of Maple, that they do; it makes the wood of the first useless, of the second valuable]: Boas 1901a, no. 15: 118-128; (cf. Kalapuya [Wild Cat brings salmon, does not tell Coyote where he is catching them; he pushes him, the salmon fall, Wild Cat picks them up, Coyote kills him; tells his five children to make a fire, playfully wrestle with Wild Cat's five daughters, push them into the fire; they push the little Coyotes themselves; Coyote eats his children, and Wild Cat's children run away; Coyote pursues them, but they kill him]: Jacobs 1945, no. 7: 360-363); Klamath [a grizzly woman has two sons, and an antelope also has two; grizzly digs fewer roots than antelope; tells her she has fleas or lice; bites seeds to make a distinctive sound; gives antelope's sons the meat of their mother; they smother the grizzly's sons with smoke in the house ; leave their painted corpses standing as if they were laughing; forget to warn the awl not to tell the grizzly they ran away; the crane stretches out its leg; pushes the grizzly into the river; finishes it off in the water with an arrow]: Barker 1963, no. 1: 7-13; Klamath [a grizzly woman has two children, and the antelope also has two; the antelope quickly filled a basket with roots, and the grizzly ate mostly them; the same the next day; on the third day the grizzly asked him to clean her hair; the antelope cleaned it and said that her own hair was clean; but the grizzly began to bite the roots as if they were lice, and then bit the antelope's neck; brought the meat home; the antelope's youngest son: tastes like mother's ear; the eldest: be quiet; the grizzly warned her children not to jump over the log, not to throw themselves at the branches, not to dive; the cubs refuse to play these games when the antelope's son offers them; but they agree to play smoke suffocation in the dugout ; first the antelope's children; and when the cubs, the antelope's children did not open the exit; they placed the cubs' bodies as if they were laughing; they ordered all objects to answer the she-bear that here are the antelope's children; but they forgot about the awl; the she-bear rushes here and there, and then the awl says that the antelope's children have long since run away; she rushed after them; she fell asleep next to the cave in which the antelope's children were hiding; they run again, asking the crane for help; he hid them in a wooden whistle and brought them home; when a grizzly ran up to the river, he stretched out his legs like a bridge, shook her off when she walked along it, and then shot her with a bow]: Gatschet 1890: 118-123.
California. (Cf. Yurok [Puma has two wives - Black Bear and Grizzly (Brown Bear), they are sisters; Black has a boy and a girl, Grizzly has a girl; leaving with Grizzly to collect acorns, Black Bear warns the children that if she does not return, then Grizzly killed her; the mother did not return, Grizzly said that she was delayed somewhere; Black Bear's children invited the girl Grizzly to climb into a toy house in the sand, brought it down , cooked the meat as if it were venison, gave it to Grizzly, shouted that she was eating, ran away; climbed a tree, Grizzly began to undermine it, they climbed to another, ran to the river, asked an old man to help them cross, he stretched his legs across the river like a bridge; when Grizzly went, the old man removed his leg, Grizzly drowned; Black Bear's children began to live with their aunt]: Sapir 1928, No. 10: 259-260; kato [Bear and Doe are Blue Jay's senior and junior wives; both go for clover, Bear asks to search Doe's head; throws sand into Doe's hair, biting it and making a characteristic sound; kills her; a boy and a girl fawn find their mother's eyes in a basket of clover; offer the cubs to climb into an empty log; smother them with smoke, give their meat to their mother, saying that they are skunks; Bear drowns when Crane removes her neck]: Goddard 1909, No. 17: 221-222; lassik [a grizzly and a doe are the wives of a hawk; they crushed acorns and went to the stream to soak the flour; the doe told the grizzly that her hair was clean; the grizzly said that she had the doe got a louse and bit her head off; put it in the fire at home; her eyes burst, the grizzly said it was the log that cracked; but the little fawns knew it was their mother's eyes that had burst; her hair told them to run; the little fawns suggested to the little bears that they should take turns suffocating each other with smoke in an empty log; climbed in first, said that was enough; when the little bears climbed in, the little fawns suffocated them to death; brought the bodies to the grizzly, said they had killed two skunks; then said the grizzly had killed their mother and was now eating her children; ran away; asked a crane to stretch his neck across the river; hid in a cave on the other side; when the grizzly walked across the crane's neck, he shook it off in the middle of the river; grizzly: let my back turn into a young oak]: Goddard 1906, No. 2: 135-136; yuki [The she-bear is the mother of the female deer; the female deer's husband, the deer, brings birds to his son and daughter, gives the giblets to his mother-in-law; the mother-in-law took out the caught birds, left one partridge in the trap; the deer bent down to pick it, the mother-in-law killed it; called the daughter to gather clover, asked her to look in her head, then began to look in her daughter's head, bit it off; put the eyes of the female deer and the deer in acorn porridge, gave them to the deer cubs; they recognized the eyes; invited the bear cubs to play in the steam room, closed the smoke hole ; placed the bodies, putting sticks against them, turning them into skunks; ran to the sea, asked Grandfather Crane to take them across the sea; he stretched out his neck; when the She-Bear came, he removed his neck, she fell into the sea, but swam out; Coyote, Rabbit, Fox and others killed her on the shore with stones, turned her into a she-bear]: Foster 1941: 236-237; yana (northern) [the Grizzly woman wants the Doe to cut off a piece of her flesh for her; then searches in her head, gnaws through her neck, eats many of the Doe's relatives, but does not find her two children; the fawns offer the Grizzly children to smoke each other as a joke , suffocate the Grizzly children with smoke, cover the corpses with blankets, run away; save themselves on a cliff, making it high; Grizzly gnaws rock, dies; fawns turn her spine into a she-bear]: Sapir 1910, No. 24: 207-208; sinkyon [a grizzly and a doe are the wives of a hawk, each with a son and a daughter; began to wash acorn meal on the sand by the shore; the grizzly works roughly, the meal is sandy; asks the doe why her meal is so clean; suggests looking in her head; poured sand into her hair and said it was full of lice; now I will start biting them; gnawed through her throat; the doe's children realized that the grizzly had killed their mother; lured the cubs into a pit while playing, where they made a fire and blocked the exit ; they suffocated; said: "You will not see your children" and ran away; the deer heard this; grizzly: what did they say? deer: you know yourself; She tried to pierce her husband with a stick, he dodged; she rushed in pursuit; the fawns first climbed a tree, the grizzly did not notice them; then to the river; the crane stretched out its neck and they crossed; the crane told the grizzly that he had not seen anyone and she returned; the brother built a dugout, the sister collected acorns; one night, against his permission, she went out: she was menstruating; the brother performed the rites; the sister gave birth; the brother does not understand from whom; she goes to look for people - where she dreamed; hears conversations and laughter, but each time she finds an abandoned camp; the fourth time she sees a lynx; he gave her myrtle leaves; she rubbed her body with them and the people returned; they like the aroma; the girl came out of hiding; two buffalo began to dance with her; in female initiation rites, they sing songs that the deer sang for his sister]: Kroeber 1919, no. 11: 349-350 (on p. 351 there are differences in the version of another storyteller; the doe hung up her apron and told the children that if it fell, she was dead; the grizzly sends the children to smoke the birds out of the hollow; the fawns climb into the hollow first, and then offer it to the cubs ; they suffocate them with smoke; the crane stretched out its neck to the grizzly, but in the middle of the river it withdrew; the grizzly swam to the stone on which the fawns were; they tell the stone to grow; they offer the grizzly to climb, leaning a tree against the stone; they push the tree away, the grizzly is broken, only the skin remains; the stone becomes low again; this ends); help : Barrett 1933, #87 [The Falcon brings his Doe wife better game and his mother Bear worse; the Bear chases him; his grandfather Tree opens the trunk, he hides in it; the Bear calls the Doe to gather clover; asks her to look in her hair; there are snakes there; then she searches the Doe herself, bites off her head; feeds her two sons with her flesh; the Lark says that they are eating their mother; they strangle the Bear's two daughters in a steam room (they staged a fanning contest and they died of the heat) ; they run away; the eldest brother spits, creating a pool behind him (three times); the Crane stretches his neck out to them like a bridge; when the Bear steps on it, he shakes her off into the water; throws a hot stone into her mouth, she dies], 88 [as in (87); The Deer is the son of the She-Bear, the husband of the Wild Cat; the She-Bear kills her son; is dissatisfied that the Cat does not bite through the snake and lizard that she finds in her hair; the Fawn brothers endured a fanning contest in the steam room because their grandfather Putrid-man doused them with cold water, and the daughters of the She-Bear died from the heat ; the children of the Doe run in four directions in succession; then Putrid throws them on feathers to the sky; the Crane throws the She-Bear into the water, she drowns], 89 [as in (88); the Doe's husband killed by the She-Bear is Thunder; they have a boy and a girl], 90 [as in (87); both parents are Deer; Woodpecker (Yellowhammer) throws a hot stone into Mother Bear's mouth as she crosses the river by the Crane's neck]: 327-331, 334-342, 344-348, 350-354; Oswalt 1964, #5 (kashaya) [Bear and Doe are widows; go out to gather nuts; Bear asks Doe to show her neck; bites and kills her; gives mother's meat to eldest fawn; Crow warns him not to eat; fawn invites bear cubs to play; first they will climb into a hole, and the bear cubs will smoke them out ; when they cry out that it is enough, that is enough; then let the bear cubs climb in; the bear cubs do so, and the fawn cubs suffocate them to death with smoke; the fawns run away; Uncle Heron stretches his neck across the river, the fawns cross to the other bank; the river carries the she-bear out to sea]: 57-65; Maidu : Beck et al. 2001 [The female deer warns her daughters that if Grizzly kills her, they should go to their grandmother Crane; while collecting greenery, Grizzly suggests that the female deer search in her head, bites through her neck; tells the fawns that their mother is sick and will come later; the fawns and Grizzly's daughters play, closing each other in a smoky cave ; The fawns smoke Grizzly's daughters to death, bake them, put the meat pieces and heads with limbs separately; they order all objects to be silent, forget about the pine needle, run away; Grizzly eats the meat of the daughters, discovers the heads; the needle shows Grizzly the way, The fawns climb a rock, throw a hot stone into Grizzly's mouth, come to Zhuravlikha; having woken up, Grizzly asks Zhuravlikha to stretch her leg across the river; in the middle of the river Zhuravlikha throws Grizzly into the water (allegedly, the latter scratched her leg with its claws; the Water Beetle women ate Grizzly; the Milky Way is Zhuravlikha's leg stretched across the river, and at the same time the river itself; two stars are the Fawns, in front of them is their mother, further on is Grizzly's playing daughters; the Horned Owl looks at a rock jutting out into the heavenly river]: 83-86; Dixon 1902, No. 9: 79-80 [brother and sister fawns find their mother's meat in a basket of clover; they starve the cubs in a steam room ; they climb the rock, it grows upward; they throw a hot stone into the mouth of the She-Bear; their grandfather Zhuravl (?) stretches his leg across the stream; the She-Bear drowns], 80-81 [ditto; the hot stone kills [Bear], 81-83 [the fawns find their mother's head in a basket; they boil the cub; they throw a hot stone into the mouth of the Bear as she swims across the river; she dies; a spider lifts them up to heaven; they meet their mother there; they are thirsty; the mother goes for water, drowns]; Nisenan : Powell 1877 [The She-Bear and the Doe went to get clover; the Bear said that she saw a louse on the Doe's head, the Doe bent down, the Bear tore out her eyes, put them in her basket; the Doe's children noticed their mother's eyes in the basket; they lured the cubs into a cave, made a fire at the entrance , they were baked; the She-Bear ate them in a rage, set off in pursuit of the fawns; they climbed a cliff, threw down a hot stone, the She-Bear died; they threw stones in different directions, appeared acorns, berries; the elder brother made a hole in the sky with an arrow, put up a ladder; the younger was afraid to climb; then the elder gave him a pipe to smoke so that the ground would not be visible; both climbed into the sky, saw their mother by the pond, recognized her by her empty eye sockets; the elder brother was a deer, the younger was a woodpecker (Sphyrapicus varins); the brothers did not like their blind mother, they rode on a wheel, fell into the pond, drowned]: 341-343; Uldall, Shipley 1966, #2 [The Doe is the sister of the Bear's husband (brother's wife?); they go for clover, the Doe suggests to the Bear that she look for insects, the Bear kills her; two little Deer boys find their mother's head in a basket; they bake a bear cub in a pit , they flee, telling the stump to answer for itself; having climbed a rock, they throw a hot stone into the bear's mouth, she dies, they roast her and eat her; their mother's brother came, they gave him a bone, she fell, turned into a bear, ran away; their mother's brother lifts them up to heaven; there they roll a ball, find their mother in the house, suckle at her breast; at night the youngest asks for water, the mother goes for water, falls into a hole, dies; now the brothers make thunder and lightning]: 21-25; Mountain Miwok : Gifford 1917, no. 13 [short version; Fawns smother Bear Cubs with smoke in a hole; no crossing of the river; Lizard is the Fawns' aunt; the text ends with her throwing a hot stone into the bear's mouth, she dies]: 333-334; Kroeber 1907a, #10 [two Fawn brothers strangle Grizzly's children in a sweat lodge ; hide in their grandfather's sweat lodge; he throws a hot stone at Mother Bear's rear end, burning her from the inside; Fawn ascend to heaven, become Thunders]: 203-204; Merriam 1993 [Female Fawn is Grizzly's husband's sister; she has two sons, Grizzly has one; Grizzly suggests she search her head, kills her, brings her liver home; Fawn finds and recognizes her; playing with him, strangle Baby Bear in a pit with smoke , laying him down as if he were sleeping; run to the other side of the river; Grizzly asks how they got across; Backwards ; Grizzly walks backwards, Fawn rolls a hot stone onto her; they make a belt from her skin, climb to heaven; there they meet their mother; she drowns in a spring; they go back down; that is why deer live on the earth and not in the sky]: 103-109; Wilson 1922 [a mother deer with two fawns came to visit a mother bear with a cub; went with her to pick berries, but was killed; the fawns saw the bear bring their mother's liver; they suggested that they play with the cub by climbing into a cave one by one with a fire in front of it and blowing smoke into it until the one in the cave said that it was enough; they suffocated the cub with smoke; they ran to their grandfather; he taught them how to heat stones and roll them down a hill; when the mother bear chased them, the stones killed her; the grandfather made several proposals to his grandchildren regarding their future destiny, but they agreed only when he suggested that they live in the sky; he lit a fire to lift them up to the sky; they began to dance around the fire and accidentally spilled some water; together with the steam they ascended into the sky, where they now live with their descendants; lightning – sparks from under their hooves; short sharp peals of thunder – this is the younger fawn running, and the dull rolling ones – the older one]: 87-89; chukchansi yokuts (short summary) [a she-bear Grizzly kills a female Deer, taking insects from her; two little boys-Deer kill two little Bears in a steam room ; they run to their grandfather; he kills Grizzly by throwing a hot stone into her anus; the boys make such a noise that they must go and live in the sky, they became Thunders]: Gayton, Newman 1940, № 130: 96.
Great Basin. Northern Paiute [A She-Bear and a Doe go digging roots; sit down to rumple their skins; the She-Bear bites through the Doe's neck, brings her fat home; the youngest Fawn tastes his mother; when the She-Bear goes to get the remaining meat, the two Fawns challenge the two Cubs to a game of locking each other in a smoky room ; smother them to death with smoke, impale them on stakes (so that the She-Bear thinks they are standing near the house), run away; ask the Crane to stretch his legs across the river, walk along them to the other side; ask him to drown their pursuer; when the She-Bear reaches the middle of the river, she bends down to drink, falls, and drowns; the Cubs tell the Crane's wife that they eat pine needles, not fish; [that is why there are deer in the forest now]: Kelly 1938, #27: 431-432; Northern Shoshoni [after going for roots, Mother Bear suggests that Doe search her head, wrings her neck; Cubs eat deer fat, tell two Fawns about it; they suggest playing in the sweat lodge, smother the Cubs with smoke , paint them red, arrange the corpses so that they look alive; run; spend the night in a hollow; Mother Bear falls asleep near the hollow; Fawns run to the river; their maternal grandfather Blue Bald (Crane?) stretches out his legs, they cross to the other bank; Mother Bear steps on his knee, Crane throws her off; she swims for a long time, gets out on the shore, her fur is peeled]: Lowie 1909b, no. 9: 253-254; gosiute [The she-bear kills the doe; the fawns strangle the bear cubs in the cave ; they run; the crane stretches its leg across the stream; takes its leg away when the she-bear steps on it; it drowns; the crane tells the fawns to go to the mountains and eat grass, that is why there are so many deer]: Smith 1993: 37-38.
Greater Southwest. Western Keres : Boas 1928a (Acoma) [She-wolf (she has a son and a daughter) calls Doe (she has twins; unclear whether two sisters or brother and sister) to gather pinyon nuts; asks how her children became spotted; Doe says she locked them in a room with a fire in it; while gathering nuts, Bear tore Doe to pieces, brought home her meat, gave the fawns her udder, said the mother would come later; some man told them their mother had been killed, advised them to kill the cubs, flee to Wu'nimatse, where their mother was now; the fawns suggested making the two cubs spotted in the way Doe had told She-wolf; they lock the cubs in the house, suffocate them with smoke ; [they arrange the bodies as if the cub was going to shoot his sister with a bow and arrow, who had swept the floor; they flee to the west; old Turtle carries them on his back across the river; she-wolf pushes her son, the body falls, she realizes that the children are dead; Turtle carries her too; at Wу'nimatse, Deer bids She-wolf go down and get the fawns; Elk kills her with his antlers]: 180-183, 273-274 [summary]; Parsons 1931 (Lagoon) [Coyote goes with Antelope to gather cactus fruit; removes lice from her, kills her; gives her meat to her two children; the meat tells them to smother Coyote's children with smoke in the house , to follow their mother to Venimatse (lake where the katsina live, where the dead go); Coyote goes down to W. with Antelope's children; a multitude of antelopes below take it on their horns and throw it back]: 137; (cf. Tiva : Parsons 1932c, no. 16 (Isleta) [She-wolf kills Doe, offering to comb her hair; brings meat home; Fawns roast it, she tells them it is their mother; Fawns strangle Wolf Cubs, promising to make their eyes as beautiful as theirs ; Blackbirds hide Fawns in ball, play football, She-wolf runs by; Beaver carries first Fawns, then Wolf, across river; big Deer kill Wolf, boil her; one Fawn drops a drop of the brew; from her many wolves arise; (reprinted in Hodge 1933: 12-14)]: 403-404; Teva : Espinosa 1936a, no. 30 (San Juan) [as in keres; She-wolf suggests that Doe search in her head; wolf cubs are lured into a burning house, promising that they will become spotted ; She-wolf is boiled, Doe drops a drop of the decoction; She-wolf is reborn, devours many deer]: 97; Parsons 1940, No. 52 (Taos) [Bear and Doe hunt together; Bear suggests that they search in each other's heads; Doe understands that she is going to eat her, teaches her son and daughter what they must do; to the Bear's question, she replies that the children must be smoked so that they will have beautiful spots; Bear smokes the Bear Cubs to death ; bites the Deer in the neck, brings her meat to her children; they do not eat, run away; the Beaver promises to take them across the river if they search in his head; there are frogs there; the girl snaps, biting her brother's necklace made of bear fangs; the horned snake (?) Pakёalaana takes the children across another river ; the children run to the adult Deer; they tear the She-Bear to pieces with their horns]: 109-111).
Chaco. The victim's children call the Jaguar's sons to hunt, kill them by setting fire to the bushes; feed the Jaguar with their meat. Chamacoco : Wilbert, Simoneau 1987a, #101 [The Maned Wolf (MW; the exact species identity is uncertain: Chrysocyon branchyrus or one of the species belonging to the Cerdocyon, Dusicyon, or Lycalopex families) is a good gatherer, fisherman, and hunter; the Jaguar (MW calls him "big brother") returns empty-handed - the game runs away when it sees him; the Jaguar found a place with a lot of tubers of aquatic plants and decided to lure the MW there; the MW's wife saw the Jaguar carrying the tubers and sent her husband; the Jaguar lured the MW deeper, hit him and drowned him, took his bag with tubers; told the four sons of the MW that their father had gone home before him; began to play with the sons of the Jaguar and noticed their father's bag; lured the children of the Jaguar to hunt guinea pigs by setting fire to their holes; the children of the Jaguar were surrounded by a ring of fire and died; at home they mixed the meat of the guinea pigs with the meat of the children of the Jaguar and gave it to him to eat; told their servant-Rabbit to tell the Jaguar when he had finished eating whose meat he had eaten; he chases her, she turns into a rabbit; a mark remains on her back - a trace of a spear thrown by the Jaguar; the Jaguar set fire to the thicket, but the Rabbit girl ran away], 102 [The Maned Wolf (MW) collects more honey and finds better tubers than the Jaguar; the Jaguar tried in vain to scare him, and MW scared him; he screamed, but said that a horsefly had bitten him on the penis; While collecting tubers of aquatic plants, Jaguar drowned MW; MW's sons noticed their father's sandals on Jaguar's feet; imitating the tracks of a peccary, they called Jaguar's children to hunt; they set fire to the vegetation and they burned up; MW's children mixed their meat with peccary meat and gave it to Jaguar to eat; they asked the Rabbit Woman to tell Jaguar what he had eaten; he chased her, but she ran away], 103 [Jaguar and Maned Wolf (MW) are friends, both have two sons; Jaguar brings small tubers, and MW brings large ones; Jaguar lured MW to bend down for a tuber (there was only a piece of wood) and killed him; MW's sons noticed their father's basket at Jaguar's; they imitated the tracks of wild pigs, brought Jaguar's sons there, set fire to the vegetation and they died; their meat was mixed with peccary meat; asked the servant of the Jaguar Hare to give him this meat, and then to report what he ate; Jaguar threw a spear and since then there is a bald spot on the back of the Hare; the Hare became a hare; (the ending is confusing: in particular, the adult GV successfully scares the Jaguar, but is not scared himself)]: 403-410, 411-415, 416-419; mataco[The fawns make a chain of arrows, run to heaven]: Calífano 1974 [The deer marries the daughter of the jaguar; deceives his father-in-law, but in the end he kills him; brings his daughter a piece of his meat; she recognizes her husband's flesh; the two sons of the deer lure the children of the jaguar into dry grass, set fire to them, they die; give the meat to the jaguar under the guise of wild boar; they report this, run, make a chain of arrows, climb to heaven; the jaguar climbs after them, the chain breaks, he is killed]: 49; Wilbert, Simoneau 1982a, no. 2 [Metraux 1939: 16; The deer marries the daughter of the jaguar; the jaguar mother-in-law kills her son-in-law, brings her daughter a piece of his meat; she recognizes her husband; the two sons of the deer kill the children of the jaguar, feed him their meat; running away, they shout about it; he chases them, they shoot into the sky, making a chain of arrows; they rise into the sky, turn into the Pleiades; their mother climbs up after them, turns into the Southern Cross (in the note it is said that this is about the stars near the Pleiades, appearing in the morning in mid-September; i.e. this is not the Southern Cross)], 3 [the Deer has three sons; he went for honey, disappeared; the boys are crying; the eldest came to the Jaguar's house, found his father's head in the Jaguar's bag, recognized him by the paint on his face; the Jaguar lies that he and the Deer were hunting wild boars, the Deer has not yet arrived; the fawns offer the two sons of the Jaguar to set fire to the thickets to drive out the frogs (the Jaguar's children ate them); they set fire from all sides, the Jaguar's fawns burn; the fawns turn their bodies into the bodies of wild boars, give them to the Jaguar; shout that he eats his children; shoot into the sky, climb up a chain of arrows; when Jaguar climbs, the elder one breaks the chain, Jaguar falls on sharp stakes; the fawns turn into the constellation Gemini (large, small and large red stars)], 4 [The Jaguar woman quarrels with the Puma woman, kills her; the children of the murdered woman call the children of the killer to hunt, set fire to the grass, they die; the corpse of one is wrapped in a goat skin, given to the mother to eat; they make a chain of arrows, rise to the sky, become a constellation; when Jaguar woman climbs, they break the chain, Jaguar woman crashes]: 38-39, 40-42, 43-44.