In Guarani mythology, Yvy marã e'ỹ (or, in Portuguese, terra sem males; meaning "land without evils") refers to the paradise.
[1] The final destination of the soul in Tupi Religion was allegedly called Guajupiá (Gûaîupîá, ûaîupîá), the "society of ancestors" ((sociedade dos antepassados), and it lay beyond the mountains.
However, only one source, the French priest Claude d'Abbeville of the 17th century has attested to this indigenous name "Guajupiá" for the Land without Evil (terra sem mal).
[4][6] According to the author of the book História do Caminho de Peabiru, Rosana Bond, this Tupi-Guarani paradise would be a real island that the vast majority of Guaranis believe to be located to the east, somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.
[10] Although it has been assumed that the search for the "land without evils" played a central role in these processes of resistance and migration,[11][10] ethnohistorical works contest the veracity of this theory, due to the lack of empirical data to prove it, being the result of a reductive reading of documentary sources.