In this post I choose write about a bird called Uirapurú, the scientific name is Cyphorhinus arada. This bird live in the west and south of the Amazon forest, even in the Amazonian Andes. The name Uirapurú drift of the tupi-guiarani languages, its meaning "the bird it is not a bird". Does`t exist a reliable number of how many Uirapurús exist, but there is no alarms of extinction, even they are a lot.
Exist a lot of legends about its existence, says that the song of the Uirapurú bring whom listen it blessings and is so beautiful that when the song sounds all the animals, birds even the river stop for listen the wonderful melodies of the Uirapurú.
The Uirapurú song only a few minutes in the morning when its build his nest, this happen only nine or fifteen times in one year.
Almost all the legends of the source of the Uirapurú point to a young and beautiful men that was turned in a bird. One say that he was a god that down to the earth turned in this bird and for this his song are so gorgeous and simple in the same time. Another legends says that the most beautiful young men of the tribe die in a battle and the women of the tribe cried much so the god turned the spirit of the young men in the bird. But the most famous version in Brasil is the history of the young men of the tribe that fall in love of the chief`s wife, so they can not be together, he prayed to the god Tupa not suffer any more and he turned in the Uirapurú, he song all the nights for make sleep to his lover, but the chief of the tribe want keep it in his side for listen his songs forever, then the Uirapurú went far away of his lover, to the middle of the Amazon forest for song for everybody and nobody in the same time.
See you later parents, I hope that the legends likes you.
Hello Dani
ReplyDeleteThey are very beautiful all the stories that you tell about this little bird, I like them very much, its colors are beautiful.
See you soon
Yis