drox: [Amazonic Folklore]: Icamiabas ("female indian warrior women without husbands") or Coniupuiaras ("Grandes Senhoras"): tupi indigenous names to the amazon warrior women who supposedly lived in Brazil. The legend on these Amazons was often associated with the myth of Eldorado, in whose vicinity they would live. Each year, at the Festival of Iaci (a lake near the headwaters of the river Nhamundá), the Icamiabas used to reward her lovers, the Guacaris, after mating, with muiraquitãs, highly valued green amulets...
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Those guys look like Spanish conquerors (Conqistadores), and they have never been to Brazil.
That's part of the myth.
They wear armor that looks like they cut of their breast.