These legends seem quite random. I've noticed that south american myths (including aztec and maya) tend to seem like the random agglutinations of stories a small child might come up with. If it were not very innocent. And on drugs. ^_^
Ah, Ayahuasca... The stories do seem to lack a clear definition of good and bad, as our folk legends do in a red-riding-hood-GOOD and big-wolf-BAAAD way. But then again, if you look at the original versions of European folktales, they are not that clear either. Maybe it´s Walt Disney & Co. who changed added on their stamp of a clearer division into (artificial?) categories of good and bad. To the South American reference: Still got to consider that the Wao lived isolated in the Amazon with almost zero interchange with other cultures. One day I asked Quemperi if in his 80 years of life he had ever met a Shuar or a Siona (other Amazon tribes living "close by"). He says he never has.
Oh...I know what these stories are like: they are like dreams. Maybe they were not making up stories, but only recounting their dreams to each other....
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The stories do seem to lack a clear definition of good and bad, as our folk legends do in a red-riding-hood-GOOD and big-wolf-BAAAD way.
But then again, if you look at the original versions of European folktales, they are not that clear either. Maybe it´s Walt Disney & Co. who changed added on their stamp of a clearer division into (artificial?) categories of good and bad.
To the South American reference: Still got to consider that the Wao lived isolated in the Amazon with almost zero interchange with other cultures.
One day I asked Quemperi if in his 80 years of life he had ever met a Shuar or a Siona (other Amazon tribes living "close by"). He says he never has.
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