Almost all the etiological myths of the Amazon confirm that birds play a fundamental role in the lives of the first settlers. These are powerful beings that can function in different spaces or ecological niches: the earth, the water and the sky. It was those who collaborated in obtaining the fire, “Pano”, in preserving life after the flood, fertilizing women when there were no men “Harakabut”, and, moreover, in the town that was “Takana”, they are responsible for choosing the future shamans or “Eyamitekua”. There are humans who married birds “Yine”. Thanks to them, the dead are protected so that they can complete their journey to the other world to meet their ancestors. Not only in oral literature birds are the protagonists, but also in the origin and survival of shamanism. Neither the fabric of the “Cushmas” or original clothes, nor the sacred headdresses can sur...

Dentro de la gran variedad de pueblos originarios en el Perú, hay uno sobre el cual se conoce poco: el pueblo Urarina o urarinaaürü, y lo mismo podemos decir de su lengua. Ubicado en territorios de la cuenca del río Chambira

Almost all the etiological myths of the Amazon confirm that birds play a fundamental role in the lives of the first settlers. These are powerful beings that can function in different spaces or ecological niches: the earth, the water and the sky. It was those who collaborated in obtaining the fire, “Pano”, in preserving life after the flood, fertilizing women when there were no men “Harakabut”, and, moreover, in the town that was “Takana”, they are responsible for choosing the future shamans or “Eyamitekua”. There are humans who married birds “Yine”. Thanks to them, the dead are protected so that they can complete their journey to the other world to meet their ancestors. Not only in oral literature birds are the protagonists, but also in the origin and survival of shamanism. Neither the fabric of the “Cushmas” or original clothes, nor the sacred headdresses can sur...

Dentro de la gran variedad de pueblos originarios en el Perú, hay uno sobre el cual se conoce poco: el pueblo Urarina o urarinaaürü, y lo mismo podemos decir de su lengua. Ubicado en territorios de la cuenca del río Chambira

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Esta obra es una compilación de diversas expresiones de la tradición oral del pueblo ese eja, que se encuentra en el departamento de Madre de Dios. Contiene relatos conocidos en las tres comunidades ese eja: Comunidad Nativa Infierno, a orillas del río Baawaja (Bahuaja) o Tambopata; Comunidad Nativa Palma Real, en la margen derecha del río Ena’ai o Madre de Dios y Comunidad Nativa Sonene, margen izquierda del río del mismo nombre.

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