Wilfried Hou Je Bek
www.myspace.com/wilfriedhoujebekRereading the Coleridge biography; makes me want to reread at least a dozen other books...Mood: inquisitive
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- May 12, 2009 12:35 PM Two Amazonian Stories Summarized
- Nov 21, 2008 8:18 PM Translating a Maori song after Tristan Tzara
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Jul 3 2009 5:09 PM
Jul 1 2009 1:57 PM
kisses
Cochabamba Hotel
Jun 12 2009 4:20 PM
Jun 5 2009 6:47 PM
May 31 2009 5:55 PM
May 23 2009 7:04 PM
"in spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness—or perhaps because of this—the shadow is the seat of creativity."
May 18 2009 2:53 AM
May 3 2009 5:01 PM
“If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
Have a delightful Sunday!
Apr 21 2009 11:56 PM
Mayá wanted to kill all the white people. She said: 'Binan, we are going to kill them all'. I said: 'Mayá, they are so many, I saw, I traveled to Manaus, Porto Seguro, Iguaçu Falls, there are not white people only here in Ladário, there are too many white people everywhere, you can't kill them all'. The Korubo are angry people. Who is angrier than Mayá?
[Binan Tuku (Matis), talks about the chief of Korubo group that made contact with agents of the indian afaires bureau of Brazil (Funai) in 1996]
kisses,
Cochabamba Hotel
Apr 11 2009 6:12 PM
Wishing you many happy, ordinary resurrections this Easter
Everything quickens Now
Sending love and eternal delight from the void
Apr 11 2009 1:55 PM
Apr 4 2009 2:24 PM
Scientific name: Eschscholzia california Cham. Common name: California poppy. Major constituents: Protopine, cryptopine, chelidonine, flavonge glycoside Medicinal values: As a pain reliever, it is sedative for headache and insomnia.
Apr 1 2009 8:54 PM
1- Start a Portuguese course;
2- download and fly with the Brazilian poet Pedro Cesarino's thesis about Poetics, Shamanism, the World and the Death of the Marubo People, neighbor of Matis People:
ONISKA: A poética da morte e do mundo entre os Marubo da Amazônia Ocidental
ABSTRACT
This thesis is a study and a translation of pieces of Marubo verbal arts (a Panoan-speaking people of Western Amazonia). Marubo poetics is grounded in a special use of parallelism and ritual metaphors and in a system of classification whose meaning goes beyond the domains of verbal arts. The study of marubo poetics departs from an ethnography of the conceptions of person, death and diseases, shamanism and mythology. The ethnographical investigation proves that both parallel reiteration and the variation generated by the classificatory system create a way of conceiving the world and difference. Underlying Marubo ritual poetics is, therefore, a system of thought about multiplicity, which determines cosmology (conceived as a superposition of celestial and underworld layers) and the concept of person (the body and the different souls or doubles). The multiple condition of the person establishes the status of enunciation of this shamanistic poetics, whose comprehension is essential for the work of translating its songs. Therefore, translation is this context is not only a task of creative transposition of songs in writing form, but also an ethnographic problem. Marubo shamanistic poetics develops a line of thought and of action on the general state of desolation, desegregation and illness of the present time, whose meaning is
investigated throughout this thesis.
kisses,
Cochabamba Hotel
Mar 27 2009 7:35 AM
Mar 26 2009 1:58 PM
xox
Mar 10 2009 4:42 PM
Mar 10 2009 2:29 PM
a landscape between heaven and hell.
Every ten thousand years or so,
the ice will come, the ice then will go.
In one place the ocean throws water across the land,
another place flowers beyond numbers to count grow.
In time, only a desert will tell,
the span between heaven and hell.
I had a great time in Palm springs and Joshua Tree last week :)
Mar 6 2009 3:23 AM
The red Mariwin spirit arrived to Matis' house
Mariwin spirit punish a child
Beware of the Mariwin Spirit
Feb 27 2009 3:15 PM
Thinks he knows so much
Thinks he knows so much
Feb 24 2009 3:28 PM
Feb 20 2009 2:48 PM
They break branches from the trees and twine them about the child till only his shoes peep out from the leafy mantle. Holes are made in it for him to see through, and two of the children lead the Little Leaf Man that he may not stumble or fall.
Singing and dancing they take him from house to house, asking for gifts of food such as eggs, cream, sausages, and cakes.
Lastly, they sprinkle the Leaf Man with water and feast on the food they have collected.
Have a great weekend, but be careful of the children in the woods!
Feb 14 2009 6:51 PM
Love and Happiness to you on Valentine's Day
Feb 11 2009 6:45 PM
http://ia331317. us. archive. org/0/items/mechanismoflife029804mbp/mechanismoflife029804mbp. pdf
Feb 7 2009 7:08 PM
Feb 4 2009 4:27 PM
Xikrin women are responsible for body painting application to adorn men and women bodies, adults and children, with specific designs depending of sex, age group, ceremonial groups, etcetera.
When women are solicited for paint in paper sheets, they reproduce the drawings in the paper sheet, as if that were the human skin.
Xikrin men, when are asked to draw, produce a large array of spontaneous shapes, from the most figurative to most abstract.
Shaman Nhiakrekampin painting a free drawing, a nontraditional activity.
Village courtyard, with an euphoric host to the warriors that are coming back from a well suceeded incursion against an enemy village (shaman Nhiakrekampin's drawning)
Also in children's drawings, that can be observed at schools settled in Kayapó-Xikrin communities:
kisses from Cochabamba Hotel. chuuoooinc!