RAINFOREST

 

 "in the beginning there was Blackness.only the sea. in the beginning there wasno sun, no moon, no people. in the beginningthere were no animals, no plants, only the sea.the sea was the mother. mother was not people.she was not anything. nothing at all.she was when she was. Spirit.she was memory and possibility.[...]They say that we mutilate the world becausewe do not remember the great mother.She is not a distant God.She is the mind inside nature."
 —From the Heart of the World / Alan EreiraBBC 1990-2012


RAINFOREST SERIE .I RAINFOREST .II —in progress

"And we have a language which teaches usthat the world is made of things, and thesethings are separate from one another, andthey have boundaries, so we can take 'a thing'out of its context without damaging or affectingthe context. Kogi language doesn't allow for that.The language itself sees what is in the world ashaving extension into the world that it's in, andin fact my own view is that the Kogi concept ofwhat we consider things is that they are fields,which interpenetrate the world around them.So their concept of taking the obvious things,a river, a mountain, so on, those are not thingswith defined limits, that can be separated fromthe rest of the world. They are fields that extendinto the world beyond what we see as their limits,and which affect (and interact) a much greaterarea than we suppose. But that also applies toeverything else, even a rock is actually in theirterms better thought of as something whichexerts a field, that has extension beyond whatwe perceive as its physical boundaries. And thatmeans that their whole sense of what the worldis driven in a different way from ours." —Alan Ereira, Documentary Film Director,Author, Anthropologist / an interview