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This is our index of Bakairi folktales and traditional stories that can be read online. We have organized our Native American legends section by tribe to make them easier to locate; however, variants on the same myth are often told by American Indians from different tribes, especially if those tribes are kinfolk or neighbors to each other. In particular, though these legends come from the Bakairis, the traditional stories of other Cariban tribes like the Kuikuro and Carib tribes are very similar.
Keri and
Kame: These are the twin creator gods of the Bakairi tribe.
Together, they adapted the world for humans to live on, and taught them to use fire and hunt.
Evaki: The aunt of Keri and Kame. Evaki has the responsibility
of taking the sun out of the jar it is kept in every morning and putting it back away at night. She is associated with sleep and dreams and is
sometimes represented as a bat.
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