RAINFOREST II

«[…] the way in which the to Kogi understand the catastrophe taking place is that the Earth is a living being, and feels and experiences what's happening to it. and it is the sense, it's their empathy, with the suffering of the living being that is the earth that drives what they’re doing. so it's not just an ecological statement, it's in a sense a humanistic statement, that they are confronted with suffering, Global suffering of the planet itself, on a scale which is intolerable to experience, and they experience it.»

«in the beginning there was Blackness. only the sea. in the beginning there was no sun, no moon, no people. in the beginning there were no animals, no plants, only the sea. the sea was the mother. mother was not people. she was not anything. nothing at all. she was when she was. Spirit. she was memory and possibility.»

«where does the idea of Earth come from? where do we get the idea of water? why do we have a word for it? these things were conceived in the beginning, before the dawning, these were ideas, water and Earth, we can only have ideas of things that have already been conceived in Aluna. before the dawning, before there was anything, we were conceived in the water of Aluna. so were the trees, the mountains, everything.»

«And we have a language which teaches us that the world is made of things, and these things are separate from one another, and they have boundaries, so we can take a thing out of its context without damaging or affecting the context. Kogi language doesn't allow for that. The language itself sees what is in the world as having extension into the world that it's in [...]»

«The Amazon Rainforest is a pristine territory. And when we say pristine we also have to acknowledge that for us like for the people that inhabited there, there are humans, or there are a community because of the existence of other living beings that are around that, around that place, which are many many different plants and animals. And so that's why we call to ourselves as a living community. So we see ourselves in a community that involves all the living beings around.»

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