One says that, he has much time behind, when the Caigangues
indians,
who inhabited the edges of the rivers Iguaçu and
Paraná, believed that
the world was governed for M'' Boy, or Mbá, a god who had the form of a
serpent and was son of Tupã. The chieftain of this tribe, called Igobi,
had a son, Naipi, so
beautiful that the waters of the river stopped
when the young in them if aimed. Due to its beauty, Naipi was
consecrated god M'' Boy, having started to only live for its cult. It
had, however, between the Caigangues, a young called warrior Tarobá,
who when seeing Naipi for it if got passionate. In the day where the
party of the consecration of the beautiful indian was announced, while
the chieftain and pajé drank, Tarobá ran away with the pretty Naipi, in
a canoe that river followed below, dragged for the rapids. M'' Boy was
furious when it knew of the escape of Naipi and Tarobá. It penetrated,
then, in the viscera of the land and twisting the body it produced an
enormous crack, that formed a gigantic cataract. Involved for waters of
this immense waterfall, the canoe of the fugitive
indians fell forever
of great height, disappearing. It says the legend that Naipi was
transformed into one of the rocks central offices of the cataracts,
perpetuamente fustigated for waters revolts. E Tarobá was converted
into a palm, situated to the side of the abyss and inclined on the
throat of the river. Underneath of this tree it is found entered it of
the grotto, of where the vingativo monster guard, perpetual, its two
victims.