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Divine ancestor meet-cute
Jan. 7th, 2022 05:42 pmI really enjoyed the Netflix documentary A Última Floresta (The Last Forest), directed by Luiz Bolognesi and cowritten by him and Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, about the present-day situation of the Yanomami people in Amazonian Brazil and Venezuela. Davi Kopenawa Yanomami is a Yanomami activist who helped get a law passed to protect Yanomami land after gold mining predations in the 1980s led to a fifth of the population dying from mercury poisoning and other sicknesses. The presidency of Jair Bolsonaro has made their situation precarious again.
--But the documentary isn't heavy. It was made in consultation with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami's village; they got to decide what things they wanted to show, and one thing they chose was a reenactment of the coming together of the original ancestors of the Yanomami people. It was SO SWEET.
Originally there was just Omama and his brother, Yoasi--no women. Yoasi managed to copulate with his own leg and produce a baby, but with no mother to nurse it, the baby cried and cried. Omama went off to look for a woman. He tossed a fishing line in the water...
And out came Thuëyoma!
How surprised Omama was!
Thuëyoma gives him her best smile ^_^
They sit together in a hammock, chatting. "Do you have a boyfriend or husband in the water world?" Omama asks diffidently.
"I don't have a boyfriend or any suitors," she replies.
"How do you feel about that?" he asks.
"When I lived in the underwater forest, I felt alone until you found me," she says. "I was very happy when you fished me out."
--She looked happy, didn't she! And now he looks very happy too:
MOST SWEET ANCESTORS EVER.
--But the documentary isn't heavy. It was made in consultation with Davi Kopenawa Yanomami's village; they got to decide what things they wanted to show, and one thing they chose was a reenactment of the coming together of the original ancestors of the Yanomami people. It was SO SWEET.
Originally there was just Omama and his brother, Yoasi--no women. Yoasi managed to copulate with his own leg and produce a baby, but with no mother to nurse it, the baby cried and cried. Omama went off to look for a woman. He tossed a fishing line in the water...
And out came Thuëyoma!
How surprised Omama was!
Thuëyoma gives him her best smile ^_^
They sit together in a hammock, chatting. "Do you have a boyfriend or husband in the water world?" Omama asks diffidently.
"I don't have a boyfriend or any suitors," she replies.
"How do you feel about that?" he asks.
"When I lived in the underwater forest, I felt alone until you found me," she says. "I was very happy when you fished me out."
--She looked happy, didn't she! And now he looks very happy too:
MOST SWEET ANCESTORS EVER.
