It was also Yoasi who created the Poriporiri moon being. This is why Poriporiri also always dies. Poriporiri is a man who travels through the immensity of the sky every night, sitting in his pirogue like in a kind of plane. At first he is a young man, but he gets older and older day after day. By the end of his journey, he has become emaciated and his hair has turned white. Then finally he dies. Then his daughters and the toucan spirits cry for him relentlessly. Their tears turn into heavy rain, which falls on the forest for a long time. Once their father’s body has decomposed, they carefully gather his bones. Then they bloom again and Poriporiri comes back to life. It is so. The moon being is also a thing of death. Yoasi wanted it to be so because he lacked wisdom. Unlike him, Omama truly wanted us to be eternal. If he had been alone, we would never perish and our breath of life would always be as vigorous. But it was not so and, alas, Yoasi made our ancestors become other.

In the end, Omama created the xapiri so we could take revenge on disease and protect ourselves from the death with which his evil brother afflicted us. Then he created the urihinari spirits of the forest, the mãu unari spirits of the waters, and the yarori animal spirits. He hid them on the mountain peaks and in the deepest part of the woods until his son became a shaman. At first, I thought the xapiri came into being by themselves, but I was wrong. I only fully understood who they were later, once I was able to see them and hear their singing. My wife’s father also tells how it was Omama’s wife, the woman of the waters, who was the first to ask for the xapiri to come into being. We are her children and our elders became many starting from her. This is why after procreating she asked her husband: “What will we do to cure our children if they are sick?” This is what worried her. Her husband Omama’s thought remained in oblivion. No matter how hard his mind searched, he could not think what else he could create. Then the woman of the waters told him: “Come out of your perplexity. Create the xapiri who will cure our children!” Omama approved: “Awe! These are wise words. The spirits will chase the evil beings away. They will tear the image of the sick from them and bring it back into their body!” This is how he made the xapiri appear, as innumerable and powerful as we know them today.