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  • Bear Mother
    mythologies of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas
    / South American and Caribbean rural cultures

    …of the Aymara culture is Thunnupa, a bearded white man from the north who opposed polygamy and chicha, a beer commonly drunk at festivals. Animal tales are also very common in this culture, some having Aesop-like plots. Fox is the comical character in these tales, as he is in many…

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    …of the Aymara culture is Thunnupa, a bearded white man from the north who opposed polygamy and chicha, a beer commonly drunk at festivals. Animal tales are also very common in this culture, some having Aesop-like plots. Fox is the comical character in these tales, as he is in many…

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