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Minorí, a clever frog, visited the jaguar and, through various stratagems, avoided being killed. The jaguar asked the snakes to kill him. When Minorí reached the snakes, he said, "I know you want to kill me, but you had better do this on the shore of the lagoon. Otherwise, my blood will fill your village and swamp everything." When Minorí was taken to the shore, he jumped into the lagoon and escaped.

Orlando Villas Boas and Claudio Villas Boas, Xingu: The Indians, Their Myths, ed. Kenneth S. Brecher, trans. Susana Hertelendy Rudge (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), 186-190.