Some Indians went to a celebration in a house on dry land. Near the house they stopped to make still more fringes for their costumes. Pavaru was with them. The others prepared their outfits and went on, leaving Pavaru behind, alone. When he also was at last ready and went to follow his comrades, two japihins [Cassicus sp.] came flying behind him on the path, passing him by and playing in flight. Just ahead of him they came to rest on the path and took human form. They were Ariana and a companion.
The two girls went up to Pavaru and asked where he was going. When he answered that he was going to a feast, they persuaded him to stay with them instead of continuing. He agreed and deposited the costume fringes at the side of the trail. His companions later found them there upon returning from the celebration and, though there was not the slightest confirming trace, at length concluded that a jaguar must have carried off the youth.
Ariana made him shut his eyes, and when he opened them again they were already in the upper world, where Ariana married him. However, she did not permit him to cat celestial food, because if he ate it he could never again return to earth. She stole food from the earth to feed him, and people were amazed at the way their provisions disappeared. From time to time, Pavaru returned to earth, where he told people that he was married to Ariana in heaven, but no one believed him; they merely laughed, saying that he wished to impress the girls with these yarns. He always arranged with Ariana the time and place for them to meet again on earth, whereupon she would again carry him to heaven with her.
When Pavaru arrived in heaven the first time, Ta-e strung the chareruma on a cipo as if they were fish [thrusting the liana through the gill apertures so as to make it protrude from the mouth], so that they would not attack. Once, when Pavaru was alone, he watched one of these monsters for a long while; its body shuddered convulsively from time to time, and because he had watched this, Pavaru fell ill. Ariana carried him to earth so that he might be treated there by a shaman. When the shaman fell backward in a trance, the chareruma sang from his mouth. Then everyone believed that Pavaru really had been in the upper world.
When he was again up and around, some white-lipped peccaries (queixadas) appeared one day near the house. Pavaru seized his blowgun and ran after them, but did not kill a single one. He accompanied them and remained living among them for a long time. Finally, the pigs again appeared near the house, and the hunters who pursued them caught sight of Pavaru amongst them. They surrounded and captured him, much against his will, and carried him home. He said that, every day at sunset, the pigs formed a circle about their chief. The chief masticated a fruit called cheve, whereupon a round, well-constructed house appeared in which the pigs passed the night.
Ariana returned and again carried Pavaru off to heaven. He got accustomed to living there, but returned to earth as often as he wished, since Ariana had by now furnished him with feathers. However, in the upper world there are many girls, and Pavaru began to dally with them. This annoyed Ariana, who forced him to return to earth again. Pavaru, however, had by now obtained some of the celestial magical substances, and as a result the earth maidens also pursued him.
Pavaru had relations with many girls and poked fun at Ariana before them, saying: “This Ariana, when she doesn't wish coitus, she makes her genitals vanish!” When Ariana received word of this she became furious and, soiling his feathers with resin, made it impossible for him to fly, so that he could never again return to heaven.