Vaupes River

(map)

From the Uaupes we hear in 2 BR II 12: One morning the mother of the mulrakita (Amazon-stone) went for a walk to the wood, in the shape of the Big Serpent. A man who had gone hunting killed her, thinking this was a real snake. When she died the river rose and flooded all the country.

Quoted from C.H. de Goeje, Philosophy, Initiation and Myths of the Indians of Guiana and Adjacent Countries (Leiden: Brill, 1943), 110-111 (sec. d23).