Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Warao Myth 2: The Origin of Stars

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This myth from the Warao people of the Orinoco Delta appears in a book by the French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss called "The Raw...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Angel Falls or Kerepakupai-Meru?

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Since coming to power in Venezuela in 1999, President Hugo Chavez has renamed the country, the currency and the mountain that separates the ...
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Friday, December 4, 2009

Watunna - An Orinoco Creation Cycle

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One of the finest books ever published on South American indigenous myths, "Watunna", by French-born geologist Marc de Civrieux co...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Seven Yanomami die in suspected swine flu outbreak

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Seven Yanomami Indians living on the border between Venezuela and Brazil have died from an outbreak of the Type A H1NI "swine flu"...
Saturday, July 11, 2009

The Dolphin People: Novel set in Venezuelan jungle

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A small plane crashes deep in the Venezuelan jungle. A family fleeing the post-WWII nightmare of occupied Germany is captured by a warlike t...
Saturday, April 4, 2009

Kariña Myth 2: Kaputa and the Great Flood

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This Kariña myth recounts the arrival on Earth of the creator god Kaputa, who comes to warn his people that a great flood is coming. Many si...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Maria Lionza - indigenous myth or folk legend?

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This is just one version of the many myths that have been linked to Maria Lionza, the cult figure from Yaracuy State who is venerated throug...
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