The Earth was made from Silence

The word-soul in the body that sings

Abstract

Shake the Sapopemba, play the feather and the maraca, the petyngua releases smoke to mist the entire space. In the corner, a man sits chanting prayers in an ancient language. It is the cure that comes from the forest, manipulated by those who converse in the original language with the elementals of nature. Phenomenon called shamanism, but in Brazil, popularly known as pajelança. Thus, this article was born, whose intent is to reflect on myth and shamanism in indigenous culture. An integral part of the PhD discipline Amerindian Writings, a deep dive into the mother culture of all Brazilians. Intermediated by the bibliographic review, we will walk between Popygua (2017); Kambeba (2020); Lima (2017); Diakara (2020); Kêhíri; Tõrãmü (1995), Langdon (1996) among others that allow us to understand the primordial times and the healing knowledge of the forest. We will thus travel through the ancestral sinuosities of an I that inhabits us. Dormant heritage, collective memory in movement that forms and informs us. But that, due to the coloniality of knowledge, was relocated in the place of oblivion, silenced, minimized, as part of the native self that modernity does not want to recognize.