Images of Matinta Perera in Amazonian context

Abstract

This study presents a research on Matinta Perera, a character of the Amazonic myth. The fabric article includes the work process and the conclusion synthesis. The first part presents the research methodological aspects, as the choices of the character, the research place, the narrative corpus, the scene composition, and, later, it studies the narrator, the performance and the repertoires. The next part presents the study that involves the myth configurations, [air and land matintas ] ; the time and space reading of the epiphany, the magical elements that protect places and people from the apparition, the fado and the forgiveness, and, at last, the whistle, as variable and invariable ones. The studied narratives belongs to the corpus of the Project “The imaginary in the oral narrative forms of the Paraense Amazon” (IFNOPAP/UFPA), which was centered in Bragança, a town in the northeast of Pará state.