Pade ore Iñoñai chuque ome Ayoréode
An official of the Pade was killed by Ayoreos
I will tell about what the Ayoreos did to an official of the *Pade:
They say the Ayoreos who lived long ago killed an official of the *Pade.
They say fury overcame them and they screamed at him. They said this about the Picanerane, they couldn’t be overcome. The Picanerane were pursuers; everywhere they went, they chased after their fellow Ayoreos.
And so it was that the other clansmen were overcome by fury. And it was they who worked themselves up to kill the *Pade’s official. To become angry enough to kill they breathed deeply and expelled their breath with force, chanting ‘¡jérere, jérere!’
In spite of this, the other clans couldn’t catch up with the Picanerane.
They say the clansmen would work themselves up to kill their victims.
That’s because fury would then control them.
But not the Picanerane. They didn’t have to work themselves up to kill victims.
That’s because they could control fury.
*Pade – Probably this is a term that the Ayoreos used to refer to Jesuit priests who were called padres.
Oidábiadé – Campo Loro, Paraguay – 1988.
Transcribed and translated to English by: Maxine Morarie.
