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as an
edopasade
possession belonging to five of the seven clans because
it was so good to drink.
6
In his stories, it was rarely clear whose perspec-
tive Simijáné was voicing—the drowning or the saved or both at once. I
struggled to keep up.
Simijáné taught me about the
ujñarone
of Jobe, or Tarantula, in the
following way:
Jobe, Tarantula, stayed at the door to his house when the wind blew. Yocaoi [the leader
of a present-day Ayoreo community] said to the people, “could it be that no one knows
an
ujñarone
for the wind when it blows too hard?” They were afraid of the strength of
the wind that was too strong and always blew dust where they were living. The people
where I was living said, “Yes, we know that
ujñarone
.” The leader said, “Why don't you
do that
ujñarone
for this wind?” so I began to do the secret of Jobe.
You can use the secret of Ango'oto for this wind, but it may kill someone in the
village. The secret of Jochin'goi [a small tortoise] is also fine to use for this. I told the
Jobe
ujñarone
, and the strong wind went away. When the wind died down, it began
to rain.
My daughter told me, “Why don't you do that
ujñarone
, there is too much drought.”
We heard it even rained in santa cruz. Yocaoi said to me, “I had already become afraid
of so much wind that was throwing dust in our faces.”
so I said I would try. A man cannot say, “I know everything.” God told the men
[that] one who doesn't know very much should not say that he knows everything. He
has to say, “I do not know very much.” One should not be proud if he knows a lot of
things. He who knows something should not be proud. When he receives something,
he shouldn't keep this thing for himself. He has to give it to others as well.
Tarantula and his people, they had grown afraid of the wind. When the wind blows
hard, it makes a sound like “kee yee gee yee gee yee gee yee a.” The warrior leader
of Tarantula's band was Jochin'goi. He said, “I am going to go back to where I was
before.” He thought about the place where he lived before. He said, “I'm going back
to live there again.” When someone is tired of too much wind, he can make their
ujñarone
.
Jobe said to the people, “My
ujñarone
is good!”
The people said to Jobe, “Let's see. We'll listen to your
ujñarone
to see if it is
good.”
The people said to him, “come on, let's go to that house over there and eat.”
Jobe told them, “No, we're not going to go there. We're going to go to the bend in
the road. And there we will stay in my house. There is a lot of food to eat there.”
Jobe's house was like a grocery store. There was a lot of food to eat there.
Without pause, he then switched to a detailed discussion of the rela-
tionships between Jobe and the Uyujnanie, or Strong Winds, as well as
