Donate Button
menu icon
Seeds of Wisdom Logo 2022
Donate Button
menu icon

Spiritual networks in defense of the Amazon and of the cosmological balance

RECIPIENT 

Associação das Mulheres Munduruku Wakoborun

COUNTRY

Brazil

Spiritual networks in defense of the Amazon and of the cosmological balance

RECIPIENT

Associação das Mulheres Munduruku Wakoborun

COUNTRY

Brazil

This project aligns with the following Sustainable Development Goals. To learn more about the United Nations SDGs, please click here

COMMUNITY PARTNERS DETAILS

The Association of Munduruku Wakoborun Women want to help their shamans visit the funerary urns that were taken from them by the construction of the São Manoel and the Teles Pires dams. The women have been called by their ancestors, who are demanding that their shamans return to Karobixexe, the destroyed sacred site on the Sete Quedas waterfall, where the spirits rest after death and where the mother of fish and game lives.
Since the construction of the dams, the Munduruku are no longer able to catch healthy fish and are becoming sick. This project will facilitate meetings with shamans who will discuss what can be done to restore cosmological balance. These meetings and visits will be recorded and documented by Munduruku youth, who will share this wisdom within their people and schools to strengthen their knowledge of the sacred world.
Following these meetings, the shamans will visit the funerary urns and perform rituals to feel the ancestral spirits and the mothers of game and fish.  Their communication with the spirits will also guide the community in their continued resistance and commitment to Munduruku survival.

BACK TO COMMUNITY PARTNERS

TRANSLATE THIS WEBSITE »