The epew or apew is a type of oral narrative mapuche in which are narrated fictitious events, habitually carried out by animal personified.
It can be considered a Mapuche equivalent of the fable, because although it has the function of entertaining, it also fulfills a didactic eagerness and is used to transmit to the children and young values such as honesty or loyalty. Among the animals that lead the stories often are the fox (ngürü), the jote (kanin) or the puma, particularly a female (pangi) and their puppies (pangküll). Description
Several epew are transmitted from generation to generation, as part of the Mapuche oral tradition. Among them perhaps the most important is that of Kai-kai and Txeng Txeng. There are others like Sumpall and Mankian, also stories about animals, and even on journeys of the living to the land of the dead or the dead to the land of the living. t Notes and
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