Leo pleased to Bicentennial Collection published by the Correo del Orinoco, Venezuela, the brochure "Before Venezuela" . It's a script that writes Michel Bonnefoy with illustrations of his friend Omar Cruz. What tells us in easy to read?
begins by noting, in Chapter Life before the devastation, that "For centuries the European view prevailed that the history of Venezuela, and in general, America, would have begun with the arrival Christopher Columbus and "discovery" of a "new world", according to the conquerors, lacking knowledge of own thinking and thus of civilization.
must say here, that thought has not gone away yet and that Venezuela and other Latin Americans have suffered in past centuries and contemporary times, the interference of the empires in their internal affairs.
But the issue remains so, records the review that "However, when the English arrived to usurp these lands in the early sixteenth century, about half a million people lived in the territory which later settle for Venezuela."
balance preservation
Important details that then add:
"Many ethnic groups from diverse backgrounds coexist in forests, mountains and plains irrigated by rivers. The main feature of all was his close relationship with nature. His philosophy was to preserve the balance between the needs inherent in the development and population growth with the protection of wild flora and fauna, without which disappear. Many forest communities considered the passage of human life parallel to plants:
No, only the force. As
it was lonely, filled
plain pineapple, then
ordered to open up to
give birth to the Bari, who
first thing
did was build a longhouse
to live all together
. The palm did
real to be fresh and
oval to remember the pineapples
home.
hung hammocks and center
lit the fire. After
went to the forest to find seeds.
Bari legend above illustrates the beauty of innocence with which our early settlers lived in their balanced places and, of course, as presumably were holders of a collective consciousness on the basis of each the individuals that were different groups, that is, "we all are, but we are one, united real experience came to suffer the aggression of the English empire.
Later this interesting and simple text tells us that there were a lot of communities with their own languages \u200b\u200bliving harmoniously in their environment, such was the case of "Warao in the pipes of the mouth of the Orinoco River, Timotes in the mountains of the Andes, the plains Arawak, Carib on the coast around wayúu Lake Maracaibo, Yanomami in the Amazon jungles, among others. "
Michel Bonnefoy's script easily illustrates this story of ours that is before Columbus's arrival and told us that this "variety and extent of that geography, Amazon , Andean, and Caribbean cultural diversity found of the many peoples who lived there. "
If there was no need, a palm was not demolished
What our fathers distant inhabitants of the southern continent from the current environmental predators of our geographies! The story of "Before Venezuela" "Before continues and says that" unlike what European colonists spread in an effort to crush what exists in indigenous cultures, the Aborigines of the time made use of rudimentary technologies for housing construction, dikes, terraces, irrigation canals, among others. There were nomadic, hunting tapir and manatee, and had settled farmers, including growers of corn, a crop that required complex irrigation systems, with dikes and dams to control rivers. "
addition, the writer tells us that others who were members of the different communities were the ones who specialize in collecting seashells and were also fishermen, whose groups were mobilized and vessels made of a single fallen tree trunk. Such was the relationship of equilibrium with the environment "The line as a rule governing the relationship Indians established their natural environment did not allow a palm down without a need. While some mountainous terrain suited to agriculture terracing, others were building stone walls to order the crops. "
moriche palm seeds that gave rise to life
The spacious and pleasant meeting we have with the history of our early life, the warmth of reading these entertaining pages of "Before Venezuela" that should be read not only by the inhabitants of the country but for all Latin Americans, leads to an encounter with a life of balance loss on our continent.
enough for us just remember, in the case of the Brazilian rainforest, the headline "The destruction of the Amazon is a decision of entrepreneurs, as regards the Latin American Information Agency, through the Moving Web America , dominant media spread the explanation that the burning and logging of the world's largest forest is the responsibility of poor families struggling to survive. The truth is that the Amazon rainforest is a millionaire business. They will not give up exploited and only a revolution can save her. And more to the north, in Venezuela, the revolutionary government recently implemented the Caura Plan, aimed at eliminating once and for all illegal mining in Bolivar state, where he has great affectations. The Caura Plan was welcomed by indigenous peoples who have always been defending the mining activity. But the truth is that the impact of the Amazon basin has been attacked in all nations that are shared by the greed of big corporations and the irresponsibility of people in government.
But one thing is certain, is that the variety of myths and legends of our earliest inhabitants, showing the strong linkage among all peoples with nature has given them shelter.
"A single pair of humans survived the flood. From a mountain palm seeds scattered moriche wings that gave life women and men of the planet. The symbiosis with nature resulted in a great variety of homes, depending on the immediate habitat (none of the natives of this land used to bring materials from distant regions to build or make their instruments), from detached stone houses in the most churuatas collective cold to wood and palm trees clustered the extended family group, not to mention the stilt houses and Warao Wayuu, common houses supported on stilts over lagoons and mangrove swamps on both sides of the rugged terrain. "
An enjoyable read, entertaining, clear text, simple, that seizes our attention. The second installment of this series will illustrate a lot about the English imperial behavior: "With Columbus began the looting."
Venezuela Before
Bicentennial Collection
Correo del Orinoco
Caracas-Venezuela
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