Tradition
When the siesta leaves the fields in silence, a golden-haired child walks through the corn.
4/7A fragment of the moon, according to Colmán
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Where it livesCornfields of Misiones
Saga Tradition speaks of cornfields and forest. Misiones is the place this saga chooses.
HabitatCornfield
How it movesLight on his feet: he appears and vanishes
Fear
Cunning
Speed
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- Domain
- Lord of the siesta, owner of a golden wand that makes him invisible
- When
- At siesta time
- Watch out
- Follow his whistle and you get lost. Stay in at siesta time
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Tradition
They call him Jasy Jatere. A light being, impossible to catch, who appears and vanishes in the tall grass.
Variant
His sharp whistle fools the ear. Near when he is far. Far when he is already watching you.
Variant
Sometimes he is a bird.
Saga
Sometimes a tree trunk.
Saga
Sometimes just a shadow watching from a hollow tree.
Variant
He looks after the birds, the forest fruits and the children who wander during the siesta.
Variant
But walking behind him means getting lost, for a moment, in another world.
Saga
Jasy Jatere is mischief and care at once. He is the wonder of the forest.
Tradition
And yes, he too is one of the seven children of Taú and Keraná.
The end (Opá)
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What is tradition and what is art?
- Tradition
Colmán describes him as a little golden-haired man, lord of the siesta, with a golden wand that makes him invisible.1
- Tradition
He was already in folklore before Colmán's book. Juan B. Ambrosetti collected tales about him in the late 19th century.2
- Variant
There are two faces: the friend who plays and returns children with honey, and the kidnapper who takes them away, even to his brother Ao Ao.31
- Variant
In Misiones, birds whose call repeats the name are known as yasiyateré. Hence the idea that he is sometimes a bird.4
- Variant
Some versions make him guardian of yerba mate and of treasure.3
- Saga
Showing him as a felt child and turning him into a trunk are choices of this saga.
