A new shelf opens with two Guaraní legends from the great Guaraní country of the Iberá lakes and the Paraná forests — lands that today span Paraguay and the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones. The legends were given printed form by Filiberto de Oliveira Cézar in his "Leyendas de los indios guaraníes" — Legends of the Guaraní Indians — published by Jacobo Peuser at Buenos Aires in 1892, and they are heard here in a fresh English translation made for this programme.
Disclosure: this performance is narrated by AI-generated voices.
Jaebé, a hunter's son, longs for Iponá, who sings in the palm groves. At the Festival of the Presentations he outruns fifty youths, outswims them all, and alone endures the nine-day fast wrapped in a hide — only to make, at the very moment of triumph, the choice no one expected. And a dying father, Payagua, charges his three sons to stay united; the two elder brothers forget, the foxes of the forest remember, and the youngest finds the family he chooses for himself.
Filiberto de Oliveira Cézar (1856–1910), "Leyendas de los indios guaraníes" (Buenos Aires: Jacobo Peuser, 1892) — public domain. These are Guaraní legends from that one book, billed by their people and their author — not a survey of the whole of Paraguay. Nine of the book's thirteen legends were set aside under the shelf's content register, one is held for a ruling, and one stands first on the bench for Part 2; the full register is kept with the shelf's canon.
Narrated by Mira. Music: opening and closing theme, "Cypress in the Soil 2".
Chapters:
01:41 The Hogaraiteg
19:29 The Brother of the Foxes
Guaraní folk tales · Paraguay folk tales · Guaraní legends · South American folk tales · Filiberto de Oliveira Cézar · world folk tales · free audiobook
