Botoque is the boy who won fire from the jaguar, the central culture-hero of the Kayapó origin of cooking. Taken by an older brother-in-law to raid a macaw nest, he is abandoned on a cliff ledge after the eggs he throws down turn to stone; starving, he is found by a jaguar who lowers the climbing-pole, adopts him, and feeds him roasted meat, the first the boy has tasted. In the jaguar's house he sees fire, learns the bow and the cotton hunting-cord, and, warned and menaced by the jaguar's wife, flees with a burning brand back to his people, who return in force to carry off the fire. Thereafter humankind cooks while the jaguar is left to eat its meat raw, retaining only the reflection of fire in its eyes. Recorded versions call the boy Botoque, from the lip-plug of the men's house; Terence Turner treats the tale as the Kayapó's master narrative of socialization, and Lévi-Strauss set it at the head of his study of Amerindian myth.