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

Anha ituna tütenhüpe itaõ, ‘The woman who went to the village of the dead’, is a
narrative lasting roughly twenty minutes. It was registered by Bruna Franchetto
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
Grosso, Brazil). 

Anha ituna tütenhüpe itaõ ‘The woman who went to the village of the dead’, offers
a distinctively feminine version of the pan-xinguan and better-known narrative
‘Agahütanga, the trip of a living man to the village of the dead’. In the more – let
us call it – “masculine” version, Agahütanga cries for a dead friend, who descends
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
dead into the nothingness of smoke. He manages to reach the celestial village,
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
was killed by a jealous and greedy enemy (and sorcerer).

This dataset contains the mediafiles. A glossed version with annotations is found in
On this and other worlds -- Voices from Amazonia
Edited by Kristine Stenzel and Bruna Franchetto