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Once upon a time, there was torrential rain. Such heavy downpour that the animals saw their homes flooding. They run to the hills, the flooding got worse; they run to higher hills, the flooding was still getting worse; eventually they couldn't help but gather together onto the largest hill of the region.
Such a ruckus wouldn't go unnoticed by the Mboi Guazú, the giant serpent; she woke up from her deep slumber, feeling a bit peckish. Unlike most animals she could see in the dark, and what she saw was a feast. Such abundance of prey! She could even ignore their meat, and go straight for the tastiest bits: the eyes.
So she ate the other animals' eyes. One by one. She ate so many eyes that they wouldn't fit the serpent's belly, but she kept eating them. So the eyes started appearing over her body, in-between her scales, creepily emitting light. The more eyes she ate, the more eyes she would have over her body, to the point that she was bright, she was light, she was fire.
She has become the Mboi-Tatá, or the "fire serpent". And she still roams those lands, looking for prey, burning the path as she goes through. If you ever find her while roaming, don't ever forget to close your eyes - and hope for the best.
Okay, that doesn't answer your question but I was in the mood of sharing a bit of the Guarani mythology, the fire serpent. This version of the myth is the one from the Mbyá.
If anyone wants I don't mind sharing other Guaraní myths. I also remember a few Kaingang ones.
Thanks for sharing! I would like more myths please!
Accordingly to some Guaraní myths, Kuarahy (the Sun) and Jasy (the Moon) are brothers, with the Moon being the younger one. As their mother gave birth, the celestial jaguars (a type of evil spirit) killed her and stole the children, raising them in her place. The children eventually grew up and learned the truth, unleashing their vengeance towards the jaguars, killing almost all of them. They spared a pregnant female, who would eventually become the ancestor of all mundane jaguars.
That's the origin of such enmity between man and jaguar - as men took Kuarahy and Jasy's side, and the jaguar their ancestors'. (Jaguars fulfil in Guarani mythology a role similar to the bear in the European ones. It's an animal to fear, to revere, to avoid, to respect, but that you're still bound to fight).
In another myth, that would happen before the brothers' revenge, one of the celestial jaguars (called Charia) was fishing on a river. Charia didn't notice the brothers, so Kuarahy decided to troll Charia a wee bit - diving and pulling Charia's hook and line, to imitate a large fish. Charia pulled the fishing rod with all force, falling behind, amusing the brothers. Kuarahy did this three times, and in all three times Charia fell for it.
Then Jasy, amused, said: "now it's my turn!". He dives and pulls the hook, like his brother did. However this time Charia was quicker - he fished Jasy, killed him with a wooden club, and brought Jasy's corpse home as if it was fish, to eat with his wife.
As they were cooking "the fish", Kuarahy went to Charia's home, and he was invited to partake on the fish. He thanked Charia, but he said that he'd only eat some maize soup; he also asked for the fish bones, allegedly for stock. He took those bones to a remote place, and used his own divinity to resurrect his brother.
That's why lunar eclipses happen - the Moon gets devoured by the evil spirit, with the reddish hue in the sky being the Moon's blood. And the Moon only resurrects, always as a full Moon, because his brother Sun saves and resurrects him.