In the Shatapatha Brahmana (800 BC), we hear for the first time the story of how Manu saves a small fish from the big fish. Then the big fish rescues him from a great flood by advising him to ...

Their children gather fruit and medicinal plants. Elias catches fish and fells trees. And he hunts, especially spider monkeys and woolly monkeys—favorite foods of the Matsigenka. Both are ...