Oral tradition
Koch-Grünberg
Mario de Andrade
From Roraima to the Orinoco, Makunaíma as a Pemon trickster
… His mother wanted to take him outside, but he didn’t want to. So mom told her daughter in law to take him outside. So she took him out a good ways, but he asked here to carry him even further. So the woman carried him further, over a hill. Makuníama was still a kid. But, when they got there, he was a man and took her by force. And this is how it would always go with the woman and he always used her when his brother went to hunt. But the brother knew nothing of it. In the house, Makunaíma was a baby. Outside, he would immediately become a man.
Joaquim Pedro de Andrade
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New Translation
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