De'áruwa

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The De'áruwa live southeast of Puerto Ayacucho

The De'áruwa (also: Piaroa) are an indigenous tribe in Venezuela who live in the Venezuelan-Colombian border area in the Serra Parima near the city of Puerto Ayacucho .

General

De'áruwa Indians

Their origins can be found on the South American Caribbean coast .

Their language is the almost extinct Sáliva .

In 1988 about 8,700 of them lived in the forests and savannas of Macizo de Cuao-Sipapo in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas on the Cuao , Sipapo , Autana and Manapiare rivers , as well as a few in the Colombian states of Vichada and Guaviare on the Orinoco .

They earn their living by selling handicrafts at the Indian market in Puerto Ayacucho and through the tourism that was initially available. They feed on fish, hunted game and fruits that they grow on their fields, the so-called conucos .

The Piaroa are sensitive in their nature and making a dugout canoe is a magical act for them. These boats look delicate, as if they are about to break apart.

The egalitarian and anti-authoritarian social order of the Piaroa has been described as an example of a functioning anarchist society.

Further east along the rivers Asita and Parucito live in Venezuela Hoti -Indianer where it apparently is closer relatives of the Piaroa.

Creation myth of the De'áruwa

Buoka was the first. He was there before anyone else. It was dark. He didn't see the sun. He didn't see the water. He didn't see the sky. He didn't see the mountains. He didn't see the people. That happened before Wahari. Buoka created Wahari from his eye. He took out one of his eyes and looked inside. In it he saw a person and gave him the name Wahari. Buoka said, "I tore him out, he'll be my brother." And he created his brother. He also took out his other eye: Checheru, his sister. There were three siblings: a family! You know: In the middle of your eye is a tiny black figure, a little doll; whose picture he tore from his eye and then gave it a name. Hiarea haanna, the small figure in the eye, the human being in the eye, the human being in the eye. That was Wahari's thought.

The Warime Festival

At Warime, the great De'áruwa festival, they remember the primeval events when Wahari and his brother Buoka brought the world into being and created all animals. The cult activities of Warime include making and painting the masks, telling the myths, chants, dances and music. With the creation of animals, diseases came into the world. The shaman, the earthly representative of the mythical Wahari, can cleanse the hunted game from diseases with his songs. The most important masks of the Warime ritual are those of the peccary - the mythical ancestor of the De'áruwa - those of the capuchin monkey and especially those of the bee spirit, who represents the power of the forest.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orinoco - Parima. Indian societies from Venezuela. The Cisneros Collection. ( Memento from March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Press kit for an exhibition in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany from August 6, 1999 to February 27, 2000, accessed on November 3, 2010.
  2. ^ Edgardo González Niño
  3. ^ David Graeber: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology , 2004.
  4. ↑ Press kit "Orinoco-Parima" (2000, page 22) ( Memento of March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Press kit "Orinoco-Parima" (2000, page 19) ( Memento of March 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

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