Mapinguari, the One-Eyed Guardian

The myth

The Mapinguari is the hairy giant of the Amazon forests, reported above all in Acre, Amazonas and Pará. Folk descriptions speak of a single eye on the forehead, a huge mouth in the belly, feet sometimes turned backward, and a strong smell that announces its arrival. Its hide is said to stop bullets except near the navel. In some Indigenous accounts it is an elder or a former shaman who was transformed. In the 1990s the ornithologist David Oren, of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, suggested the myth might preserve a memory of extinct giant ground sloths.

Why it has this power

Level 10, ATK 3500 and DEF 3300: the highest defense in the region, like the hide that bullets cannot pierce. It is an earth Beast, heavy and unhurried. Sun and Bull speak of raw strength in the open. It is an ancient rhyme: fusing the Ancestral Giant Sloth with the Caipora joins the scientific hypothesis to the keeper of the beasts.

Did you know

Oren suggested the "backward feet" might come from the tracks of ground sloths, which walked on the sides of their feet.

Connections

• Born from the fusion of: Ancestral Giant Sloth + Caipora, Mistress of the Beasts

Where to get it

• Daily Offering: 0.0035% per pack (Legendary 0.03% per card)
• Traveler's Pack: 0.014% per pack · 0.084% in the themed pack (Legendary 0.05% per card)
• Bronze Reliquary: 0.028% per pack · 0.17% in the themed pack (Legendary 0.1% per card)
• Silver Reliquary: 0.099% per pack · 0.59% in the themed pack (Legendary 0.4% per card)
• Golden Reliquary: 0.23% per pack · 1.4% in the themed pack (Legendary 1% per card)
• Daily Showcase: Shows up on about 0.21% of days · 6,000 gems
• Craft with card dust: 4,800 dust
• Born from the fusion of: Ancestral Giant Sloth + Caipora, Mistress of the Beasts

Sources

1. Mapinguari — Wikipedia
2. Goeldiana Zoologia n. 19 (1993) — artigo de David C. Oren sobre preguiças-gigantes e o mapinguari — Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
3. Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro — Luís da Câmara Cascudo