the Devaki deny the existence of past and future.) How do the Devaki inflect their verbs? They inflect them according to the state of consciousness of the speaker. Thus a man full of fear might scream, La mora li Tuwa, I killed the mammoth!, while a man deep in dreamtime—what the Devaki call dreamtime—will say, La morisha li Tuwa, which means something like: I, in the ecstasy of the eternal Now–moment, am joined by the spirit of the mammoth who opened his heart to my spear.
