Re: Rain's dance and Amazon Jungle burning
Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu (rjapias who-is-at ibm.net)
Sun, 05 Apr 1998 23:42:41 -0200
Ricardo Ottoni Vaz Japiassu wrote:
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> Many efforts in order to stop fire over Amazon jungle had failed even
> with help of many firemen from other contries (Argentina, Venezuela, UN=
O
> and firemen from many diferent states of Brazil). However, two shaman
> form a brazilian tribe from Xingu (state of Goi=E1s) made rain and stop=
ped
> the fire.
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> Tonight, a TV broadcasting station (TV Globo) showed a video in
> witch they were invited to give a small demonstration of their power.
> And they told the producers they would make only a part of the sacred
> ritual. Indeed, after sometime of doing their "magic" movements and
> saying their secret "words" the sky was grey.
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> Was It a depicting that "primitive" knowledge (and thinking?!) sometime=
s
> can be more fruitfull than "scientific" one?
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> Ricardo.