Mbaya creation myth

When Gonoenhodi, the supreme being, decided to create men, he first removed the Guana from the earth, then removed the other tribes. To the first, he gave them agriculture to share, and hunting was for the second. The joker, who is the other divinity, noticed then that the Mbaya had been forgotten at the bottom of the hole and he pulled them out. But since there was nothing left for them, they had to take the only remaining role, oppressing and exploiting the others.

from Lévi Strauss, Tristes tropiques