Dear colleagues
This is my comic dramatization of the recent news that is hitting mainstream media;
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First they heard a strange sound. It was coming from the air.
Immediately the respected warrior Marce-Jes in the village has recalled of all the strange stories that have been passed from generation to the generation. The stories about evil Gods and their power to control water, sky, earth, fire and wind.
And then...Seeing is beleiving. In that moment he knew that the stories are true. The Evil Gods do exist. Finaly the stories of strange sightings have been confirmed. The chariot of God is flying above village. The village will be defended no matter what. The first arrows were fired as a warning to evil God. The other warriors joined. The evil God has left.
Soon the chieftain Rame-Rog has approached the scene. He assambled the warriors and he has arranged the emergency briefing. The warriors were debriefed.
Other villagers have soon aproached the scene too. "What is happening, what is happening, what was that sound?", villagers are shouting.
"I am afraid it was just a weather...some kind of weather phenomena", sadly answers Marce-Jes.
"Yes it was a weather...and bunch of noisy birds too...it is all gone now...go back to your cabins", Rame-Rog adds.
And now this is the referent news
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/30/2260586.htm
Calls to leave 'new' Amazon tribe alone
Posted Fri May 30, 2008 2:48pm AEST
Updated Fri May 30, 2008 3:15pm AEST
Members of one of the world's last uncontacted tribes fire arrows at the plane flying over their settlement. (www.survival-international.org: Gleison Miranda/FUNAI)
Related Story: Elusive nomad tribe photographed in Amazon
An Australian-based linguist says the less we know about one of South America's uncontacted indigenous tribes, the better it is for them.
A photographer aboard a helicopter has snapped a picture of the tribe, who shun contact with the outside world, in a remote part of the Amazon on the border between Brazil and Peru.
LaTrobe University professor Alexandra Aikhenvald says contact with white people has not brought much good to Indigenous tribes in history so far.
"My reaction is excitement because it is always extremely interesting to see new peoples being discovered," she has told ABC's The World Today.
"But I think they would be extremely scared [after seeing the helicopter].
"They may just leave because they may have this idea that is some sort of gigantic bird that wants to engulf them all or that it is some sort of invaders or anything like that.
"If anyone might want to establish any contact with them, I don't think they should fly helicopters. They should probably just approach them very carefully and proceed with extreme caution and care."
Prof Aikhenvald strongly doubts the tribe has never had contact with white people, but says it is not impossible.
"Many of them had contact with white people at different times in the past [but] basically in the 19th Century and then during the rubber boom, many of them just fled," she said.
"Maybe they are descendants of those groups that fled from white supremacy maybe 100 or more years ago.
"So they may not have any recollections of contact with white people. They may not be really forthcoming to tell us, but in actual fact they're just hiding or they have been in hiding for many, many years."
This is my comic dramatization of the recent news that is hitting mainstream media;
_______
First they heard a strange sound. It was coming from the air.
Immediately the respected warrior Marce-Jes in the village has recalled of all the strange stories that have been passed from generation to the generation. The stories about evil Gods and their power to control water, sky, earth, fire and wind.
And then...Seeing is beleiving. In that moment he knew that the stories are true. The Evil Gods do exist. Finaly the stories of strange sightings have been confirmed. The chariot of God is flying above village. The village will be defended no matter what. The first arrows were fired as a warning to evil God. The other warriors joined. The evil God has left.
Soon the chieftain Rame-Rog has approached the scene. He assambled the warriors and he has arranged the emergency briefing. The warriors were debriefed.
Other villagers have soon aproached the scene too. "What is happening, what is happening, what was that sound?", villagers are shouting.
"I am afraid it was just a weather...some kind of weather phenomena", sadly answers Marce-Jes.
"Yes it was a weather...and bunch of noisy birds too...it is all gone now...go back to your cabins", Rame-Rog adds.
And now this is the referent news
Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/30/2260586.htm
Calls to leave 'new' Amazon tribe alone
Posted Fri May 30, 2008 2:48pm AEST
Updated Fri May 30, 2008 3:15pm AEST
Members of one of the world's last uncontacted tribes fire arrows at the plane flying over their settlement. (www.survival-international.org: Gleison Miranda/FUNAI)
Related Story: Elusive nomad tribe photographed in Amazon
An Australian-based linguist says the less we know about one of South America's uncontacted indigenous tribes, the better it is for them.
A photographer aboard a helicopter has snapped a picture of the tribe, who shun contact with the outside world, in a remote part of the Amazon on the border between Brazil and Peru.
LaTrobe University professor Alexandra Aikhenvald says contact with white people has not brought much good to Indigenous tribes in history so far.
"My reaction is excitement because it is always extremely interesting to see new peoples being discovered," she has told ABC's The World Today.
"But I think they would be extremely scared [after seeing the helicopter].
"They may just leave because they may have this idea that is some sort of gigantic bird that wants to engulf them all or that it is some sort of invaders or anything like that.
"If anyone might want to establish any contact with them, I don't think they should fly helicopters. They should probably just approach them very carefully and proceed with extreme caution and care."
Prof Aikhenvald strongly doubts the tribe has never had contact with white people, but says it is not impossible.
"Many of them had contact with white people at different times in the past [but] basically in the 19th Century and then during the rubber boom, many of them just fled," she said.
"Maybe they are descendants of those groups that fled from white supremacy maybe 100 or more years ago.
"So they may not have any recollections of contact with white people. They may not be really forthcoming to tell us, but in actual fact they're just hiding or they have been in hiding for many, many years."