Icamiabas
The Icamiabas (from Tupi i + kama + IABA , such as "breast amputees") were in the legends of the Tupi a legendary tribe amazon-like warriors whose territory somewhere in the Amazon region should be.
It is not only remarkable that the Tupí name corresponds completely to the popular ancient etymology of Amazone ( a + mazos "without breast"), but also other similarities with ancient reports about the Amazons: They live without men, only meet once a year for the purpose of procreation, if the newborn is a girl, it remains with the Icamiabas, the boys are sent to their fathers.
The legendary Muiraquitãs , amulets made of green stone, which the Icamiabas sometimes gave to their lovers, have no parallel in European antiquity, which is closely linked to the stories about the Icamiabas .
In the Brazilian novel Macunaíma of Mário de Andrade , the eponymous hero receives from his beloved Ci, the mother of the jungle and leader of the Icamiabas before it on a vine rising into the sky and the star Beta Centauri is a Muiraquitã as a caiman , loses but him. His attempts to get the Muiraquitã back into his possession form the central theme of the novel.
literature
- Annie Gustin: Muiraquitã . In: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Vol. 13, No. 3 (1993), pp. 121-124
Individual evidence
- ↑ Luis Caldas Tibiriçá: Dictionnaire Tupi Português. 2nd Edition. Editora Traço, São Paulo 1984.