The pure land of civilization is in the tribe and also in the human spirit.

Alphonso 2022-01-17 08:01:50

It is thought that rules people, leads people forward and lives, and even throughout their lives. The formation of ideas comes from knowledge. The formation of knowledge is composed of language, words, and patterns (even dream patterns). . .

History is also made up of words and patterns, passed down as knowledge and language. But knowledge (history) also has errors in writing (inheritance). And often these errors are caused by man. Such as war, rubber war. Wars all originated from greed and plunder.

Knowledge is everything. Knowledge is more important than nation and tribe. Each of Theo and Karamacate has its own mission. And what they represent is not themselves, but their nation. They follow the "knowledge" and rely on the guidance of the "knowledge" of others to complete their respective national missions. But this mission is promoted by their own civilization. This civilization may be their nature and instinct. They themselves have given their lives and written a poem of history.

"Every plant, every tree, and every flower is full of wisdom. Never forget who you are and where you come from. Don't let your music disappear."

The Amazon tribe should be seen and recorded by more people. Thanks to Colombian director Ciro Guerra for shooting these precious records into films for us to see. There are also such abandoned tribal cultures and civilizations that have always existed and passed on in their own way.

A true civilization, the best preserved civilization, is a place where no humans can step into and develop. But if there is no human entry, how can we inherit, write, and record? While human technology brings development, has it forgotten and destroyed the inheritance of civilization and culture...

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  • Nick 2022-03-21 09:02:59

    Couldn't be better! Jung would love it if he were alive.

  • Kiarra 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Amazon Odyssey, departure and return, past and present. The wildness of the natives has been deprived of modern civilization, and it has become a hollow chullachaqui, the return of the "old man", and its memory has been re-given. Follow the water, follow the wind, follow the voice of the ancestors. I like the connection between the two stories, which is smooth and harmonious, as if the memory is looming back. The Jungle Ministry was filmed, and the difficulty can be imagined. The ambient sound is made realistic, and the last paradise lost for human beings.

Embrace of the Serpent quotes

  • Young Karamakate: Knowledge belongs to all. You do not understand that. You are just a white man.

  • Young Karamakate: A chullachaqui. We all have one, it resembles us, but it is empty, hollow. A chullachaqui has no memory. He just wanders the world, empty, like a ghost, lost in a time without time.