Anha ituna tütenhüpe itaõ 'The woman who went to the village of the dead'

<p>Anha ituna tütenhüpe itaõ, ‘The woman who went to the village of the dead’, is a<br> narrative lasting roughly twenty minutes. It was registered by Bruna Franchetto<br> and Carlos Fausto on the 23rd of November, 2004, in both audio and video formats, in Ipatse, the main Kuikuro village (Southern Amazonia, State of Mato<br> Grosso, Brazil). </p> <p>Anha ituna tütenhüpe itaõ ‘The woman who went to the village of the dead’, offers<br> a distinctively feminine version of the pan-xinguan and better-known narrative<br> ‘Agahütanga, the trip of a living man to the village of the dead’. In the more – let<br> us call it – “masculine” version, Agahütanga cries for a dead friend, who descends<br> from the celestial world of the dead to take him on a journey of knowledge. During the journey, Agahütanga witnesses the fatal obstacles that can dissolve the<br> dead into the nothingness of smoke. He manages to reach the celestial village,<br> whose owner is a two-headed vulture, devourer of the dead, which is also where the stars that mark the seasonal calendar reside. Agahütanga returns to earth but<br> was killed by a jealous and greedy enemy (and sorcerer).</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>This dataset contains the mediafiles. A glossed version with annotations is found in<br> On this and other worlds -- Voices from Amazonia<br> Edited by Kristine Stenzel and Bruna Franchetto</p>