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A GEOGRAFIA DA ALMA INDÍGENA
GEOGRAPHY OF INDIGENOUS SOUL
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ABSTRACT
The natives of the forests with their mythologies, rituals and ethics have established important 
relations between diverse elements of the forest, such as mineral, vegetal, animal and human 
also with air, earth, stars, fire, thunder, water and mountains, thus they became subjects of 
these relations and considered these relations as sacred. In this way they claim the spaces as 
spirits and these in turn contain in them the diversity of other spirits. All of these spirits are 
expressions of their life and therefore are companions and auxiliaries. Sometimes when these 
spirits become angry, they create disharmony and disorder. In this sacred space also exists the 
acceptance of different emanations of the spirits, at the same time there is a search for consensus 
and harmonization between the human person and the nature. The result of this relation 
is a visible living geography, such as the sacred Mother Earth and nothing apart from her.
KEYWORDS: Natives of the forest. Spaces. Sacred. Myth. Ritual. 
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relação do índio com os animais difere de nossa relação com eles, na medida em que 
vemos os animais como forma inferior de vida. Na Bíblia, somos informados de que 
somos os senhores da terra. (...) Um índio pawnee disse ‘No início de todas as coisas, 
sabedoria e conhecimento estavam com o animal. Porque Tirawa, Aquele-que-está-
-acima, não se dirigiu diretamente ao homem. Ele mandou alguns animais contarem 
à humanidade que Ele se mostrava través da besta. E que o homem deveria aprender 
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ção humana, como semeadores que espalham sementes pela terra e observam, nutrem 
e cuidam até que elas frutifiquem. O índio surgiu desses ancestrais sagrados: sol, lua, 
arco-íris, terra, água, fogo e ar. Dos reinos vegetal, animal, mineral. O ser índio foi se 
amalgamando como esses seres sagrados. E dessa diversidade emergiram tribos, povos, 
línguas. Essas tribos, de tão antigas, guardam a história de suas civilização como um 
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Os Tubuguaçu entendem o espírito como música, uma fala sagrada (nê-enporã) que se 
expressa no corpo: e este, por sua vez, é flauta (Umbaú), veículo por onde flui o canto 
que expressa o Avá ( o ser luz-som-música), que tem sua morada no coração. Essa 
flauta é feita de urdidura de quatro angás-mirins (pequenas almas), que fazem parte 
dos quatro elementos: terra, água, fogo e ar. Eles precisam estar afinados para melhor 
expressar o Avá que é a porção-luz que sustenta o corpo-ser,que, para os ancestrais 
é o fogo sagrado que move os guerreiros, dando-lhes vitalidade, capacidade criativa e 
realizadora.. Por isso fez o Jeroki, a dança, com o fim de afinar todos os espíritos peque-
nos do ser. Para que cante sua música no ritmo do coração da Mãe Terra, que dança 
no ritmo do coração do Pai Sol, que, por sua vez, dança no ritmo do Mboray, o Amor 
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