Start with the amazing accounts of Piro Kigimawlo from Peter Gow's 'An Amazonian myth and its history' (2001)
Ch6 The girl's initiation ritual 'the most elaborate and grandest of Piro ritual performances' (p.163), culminating with the Female Jaguar Song
'I am a female Jaguar
I am a female Jaguar
You are afraid
You are afraid...'
This is properly gendered perspectivism
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/An_Amazonian_Myth_and_Its_History.html?id=gkWPCcgRXKcC&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
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