Voice and nature: morality in the Pantanal myth Mãozão

Abstract

The main goal of this article is to verify which the relation between oral narratives of the mãozão myth and the moral, implied or not, at the narrative community in the Pantanal sulmato-grossense. The most common characteristic of the mãozão, presented by the narrators, is the dwelling defense: the wood. Thus, those that invade it or depredate it are punished physically and psychically. In the performance, the narrator brings for the narratives representation of the collective and individual yearnings, which can be identified by the participants in the communicative process. The oral narratives about mãozão represent the generating community’s ethics and show how the narrator perceives and judges his world in a poetical way.