Por / By Maffy Malaver and Dora Inés Grosso
Kinkajou and
the Food Tree
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Kinkajou stayed out all night and slept all day. One morning the other animals smelled something sweet on his breath.
It was not at all like mushrooms, the only food they knew.
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Myth of the Cuiva people —Colombia, Venezuela— about the origin of food. Version by
María Cristina Brusca and Tona Wilson. From the book When Jaguars Ate the Moon. Henry Holt, New York.
That night, Paca followed him. She hid and watched as he climbed a tree. It was loaded with pineapples, papayas, peppers, corn, yuca, sweet potatoes, and other food. Kinkajou bit into a pineapple, and its sweet juice dripped into Paca’s mouth. She whispered, “Fall from his hand, fall down to me, fall, fall, fall down to me…” And the pineapple fell into her hand! But Kinkajou saw her. He aimed another pineapple at her tail and chopped it off. Even today, her descendants are tailless.
Paca ran home to tell the other animals. Together they cut down the food tree, so everyone could eat. But Kinkajou went away to live in another part of the forest.
Versión de / Version by
María Cristina Brusca & Tona Wilson