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Is it true that the Devil will take you?

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They said: «Yes».

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«He takes us».

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«He is coming soon» they said.

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«The Devil is coming soon».

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«When the Devil arrives,
the chickens get all frightened».

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It is true that chickens
are afraid of unknown animals.

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They say that people...

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were taken away by the Devil.

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Okay.

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He would take them and put them in a cave

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and he leaves them there.

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They say he would turn into a deer.

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My father used to tell me that.

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City of Cuenca
Ecuador

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Since I was a child I was interested in tales.

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What is a tale?

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Ancient stories, legends

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myths.

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How were they created?

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Where do they come from?

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In the mountains of Ecuador,
secret and profound stories live within.

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Sometimes I imagine these stories
that are hidden in the densest part of the jungle.

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That live between the dark and humid

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...of that eternity we call Amazon.

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Shuar Community
El Tiink

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I've been visiting the Shuar for 10 years.

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They welcomed me into their home,
told me their stories.

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I keep pictures with them

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as a reminder of my stay in their community.

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I'm not from this Amazon culture

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I'll never understand what really happened here.

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No matter how hard I try

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everything will always be
an interpretation from my eyes.

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My friend Germán

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told me stories about the creatures of the forest.

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He even took me to the places where once

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as the legends tell

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they inhabited.

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Ujea´s cave.

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Iwianch´s territory.

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Arutam´s  waterfall.

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Germán's grandparents told him these tales

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not as a legend

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but as something that really happened.

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–Let's see.
–Now don't forget.

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No.

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I remember.

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I will remember.

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Once there was...

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I began to collect and illustrate
the myths that Germán told me.

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...there was a big tree.

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So on this big tree, lived an anaconda.

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Myths that at times were mixed
with religion and Amazonian ways of life.

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I mean,
they definitely weren't animals, but Arutams

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or the powerful.

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But that's how they were transformed.
I don't know how...

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Over the years,
with every story Germán told me

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my curiosity grew.

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I felt that other dimension getting closer.

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A door opened to secret time.

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I'm a turtle woman

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The kind that never dies

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They only know the name of Arutam

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In Shuar?

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In Shuar it's Arutam.

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Arutam in Spanish would be

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powerful

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powerful.

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Or God of the Waterfall.

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As we call him.

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Because the Arutam lives in the Waterfall.

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Since those times they already
devoted clearly to the heart of Arutam.

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With pleas.

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I mean, they sacrificed a lot.

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And why do you think
that doesn't happen to people now?

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Because now we wash ourselves with soap

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and we wear clothes that smell.

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So my grandfather would say to me:

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«You can't see Arutam

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because you bathe with soap

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and he smells you,
from the distance, he smells you

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the Arutam feels you».

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They don't focus or think
about Arutam anymore.

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But do they know the story?
Do young people know it?

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They only know the name Arutam.

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Simply because there have been
so many changes.

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One day, Germán told me that
behind the mountains...

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protected from the urban world and its forms

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lived the Achuar.

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There, he said, exists older myths

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and they kept them.

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I immediately felt the need
to cross the mountains

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and meet the Achuar.

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Transcutucu Mountain Range
Province of Morona Santiago

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In the small plane there were
five crew members

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the pilot, the co-pilot

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and us, sitting next to an Achuar.

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We start chatting

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and I told him of my interest
in learning stories about his culture.

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He told me that these are only known
by the elders in his community.

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We became friends right away.

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His name...

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Wajari Tiu Tukup.

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He was holding a cell phone

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he told me that he had just charged it in the city.

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In the jungle and
in his community he had no signal

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he used it as a photo and video camera.

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Go on, son!

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On that virtual memory

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Wajari kept his memories.

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Give me your hand so you don't fall into the fire.

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Welcome! Come in!

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I come to visit you, after I learned,
that I have relatives in this community.

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A profoundly self-assured
Achuar culture was portrayed.

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Rituals already lost in other jungles
that took refuge here.

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We come to visit you because
our ancestors visited each other...

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and so they learned about their neighbors.

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Two, three...

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Animals that no longer exist in Tiink.

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What stories does this land hold?

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Wajari invited me to meet his community,
but he had to announce it first to his elders.

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The elders... I thought...

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those who know the myths.

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He would wait for me on
December 27th at Taisha airport.

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Three months until December 27.

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We said goodbye
and Wajari went back to his jungle.

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From here on there would be
no way to communicate.

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And three months have passed
since that encounter.

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This is the story of a new journey.

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A journey into the depths of the
mountains where very ancient myths live.

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Wide shot Taisha…

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Taisha's wide shot.

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Uh... landscape... take two.

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Wide angle!

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Taisha Airport
December 27th

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We're on time for the meeting...

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but Wajari Tiu Tukup is not waiting for us.

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Or anyone else for that matter...

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It's Sunday

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no one knows anything.

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We spent the night
in what seems to be a ghost town.

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Send a message.

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A deal is a deal.

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Cross the bridge.

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Message from Taisha.

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December 28th

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Message from Taisha.

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Luis Garzón
Airport restaurant

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Can one just walk into
any Achuar community?

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No.

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In that aspect, neither to
the Shuar communities.

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There's no how, you need an authorization
or you need a friend to guide you.

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No, there's no free entry.

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Why? What would happen?

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They catch you, they tie you up, they take and report you here to the authorities.

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––Why do they protect themselves?
–What are they worried about?

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The area here has the problem
that they don't want them to drill for oil.

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That's the biggest issue there is,
I mean, that's the biggest thing.

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So that's the problem over there.

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They don't want them to drill for oil,
so they think... all people...

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they think you're oilmen too, you see...

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They came here to ask
«What are they doing?»

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I said I don't know...
they're filming.

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That's what they do, see, they tie you up,
grab you and sometimes even kill you.

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The bridge over the Makuma River
can be reached by road.

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Get in.

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Daddy get in.

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We decided to go look for him.

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“Government Council
Shuar Arutam… NGOs, mining,

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Oil, logging, tourism and
other companies are not allowed

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without the consent of the Shuar
people's government council

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"Danger to strangers crossing over".

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Behind the bridge are the so-called
"Sacred Amazonian Valleys".

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From now on you have to walk through the jungle.

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Thru all that green that from the plane,
didn't seem to end.

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Going into this dense jungle alone seems crazy.

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Makuma River

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The Shuar and Achuar

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protect the entrance.

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We announced our arrival by radio,
hoping that we would be heard in some community.

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I'm related to Wajari.

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Wajari sent his family member to the bridge

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to tell us to wait for him

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that he will arrive shortly

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that something happened in the community

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his brother-in-law is lost in the woods.

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He's been missing for days
and everyone's looking for him.

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He's been missing for…
He got lost on December 13th.

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–Oh okay…
–Today I heard a message you sent from Taisha.

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That's why I came here thinking
that you're already down in Makuma...

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-But you haven't come down…
–No.

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-Well, it's all right, we'll talk there...
–Ok.

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Lets head out,
to make progress.

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Just one day we got lost, that's all.

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Mmm…

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What day are you coming back?

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What date?

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Mmm…

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Eee…

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...to spend New Year's Eve here.

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Okay.

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Well... in the Pakints community,
they're planning New Year's.

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Well, I'm here in Chinkianents,
and because of grief, they...

00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:48.410
well, they're not gonna do any of those things.

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Have you seen this small palm?

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It's called Chonta

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it has thorns.

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Mmm…

00:19:15.370 --> 00:19:17.370
Uhm…

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Take care so you don't fall

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is a small pond.

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Keep going.

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Shall I?

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Watch it!

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Just like if we were soldiers.

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Ups!

00:20:04.550 --> 00:20:06.520
You need a stick.

00:20:09.120 --> 00:20:10.790
Wait for me to cut a stick.

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–No, no.
–Let's see, try it...

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Wajari's brother-in-law's name is Pedro.

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14 days ago
he went out hunting and hasn't returned.

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Where Wajari lives,
they won't celebrate New Year's Eve anymore.

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–To walk here you have to be good at hiking.
–Aha.

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If you're not good,
you won't make it through the path.

00:22:00.860 --> 00:22:02.770
Keep going.

00:22:02.830 --> 00:22:05.370
This walk will take about 6 hours

00:22:05.370 --> 00:22:08.440
but on the other side
the elders waiting for us

00:22:08.470 --> 00:22:12.840
those who know the myths
and legends that have brought me here.

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My son disappeared

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he left the house
saying he was going hunting

00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:49.350
he disappeared and never came back.

00:22:50.180 --> 00:22:53.880
That's why I asked them to help me look.

00:22:53.880 --> 00:22:58.590
They agreed and went out looking for him,
but they couldn't find him.

00:22:58.590 --> 00:23:00.960
They couldn't find him

00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:03.460
they looked again,
and they didn't find him either

00:23:03.460 --> 00:23:05.500
that's when I got sad,
and started crying

00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:07.600
so now I just bare the pain.

00:23:07.600 --> 00:23:10.670
I don't feel like eating,
I just spend my time thinking.

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Chinkianentsa
Achuar Community

00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:39.130
I think my son has died.

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Yamuach
Mother of Pedro
The young man who disappeared

00:23:48.540 --> 00:23:52.140
That's why they don't see the trace

00:23:53.210 --> 00:23:58.150
which is why she's also had a lot of grieving.

00:24:02.350 --> 00:24:03.650
Everyone is grieving.

00:24:03.990 --> 00:24:06.920
At this point it's best that we keep quiet.

00:24:07.830 --> 00:24:12.360
It is not appropriate to ask
about ancient myths until Pedro appears.

00:24:13.060 --> 00:24:15.370
It is best to support his search.

00:24:36.750 --> 00:24:38.920
Why don't you come too?

00:24:39.820 --> 00:24:41.660
Join us.

00:24:42.690 --> 00:24:44.630
Give your soul to Nothing.

00:24:45.830 --> 00:24:47.060
Forget everything.

00:24:47.060 --> 00:24:48.570
Be happy.

00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:10.120
December 29th
14 days since Pedro's disappearance

00:25:25.574 --> 00:25:26.675
Mom

00:25:28.043 --> 00:25:32.680
you're crying so much

00:25:32.680 --> 00:25:36.050
You are wearing a bead neckless

00:25:36.180 --> 00:25:39.020
this necklace you'll be wearing

00:26:11.880 --> 00:26:17.390
Kunchukui
Pedro's father

00:26:47.550 --> 00:26:50.850
I will find him when I die.

00:26:51.120 --> 00:26:52.490
I just keep thinking:

00:26:52.490 --> 00:26:56.360
I need to find him, even if it means
finding my son's body.

00:27:32.734 --> 00:27:33.869
Your son

00:27:36.330 --> 00:27:37.830
now

00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:44.310
belongs to the jungle.

00:27:56.250 --> 00:27:58.820
As my friend Germán had told me

00:27:59.120 --> 00:28:03.330
every Achuar day
begins with the guayusa ritual

00:28:04.330 --> 00:28:06.800
they take guayusa
to cleanse their stomach

00:28:07.060 --> 00:28:10.000
and find a state of lucidity

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.870
where they talk about night time dreams

00:28:12.870 --> 00:28:16.670
and how these influence
the day that's about to begin.

00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:21.180
That state of clarity at dawn

00:28:21.210 --> 00:28:24.550
calls me to ask about the stories I came for

00:28:25.380 --> 00:28:28.020
but I don't dare to say anything at this point.

00:28:28.450 --> 00:28:29.590
I just listen.

00:28:31.190 --> 00:28:35.230
In the morning you always
have to puke while drinking guayusa.

00:28:36.160 --> 00:28:38.260
Mmm

00:28:38.260 --> 00:28:45.600
Maybe your dad, your mom have dreamed it and that's
why you're here, even though you didn't dream it.

00:28:47.600 --> 00:28:50.910
Sitting here by this fire

00:28:50.910 --> 00:28:52.910
we are our grandparents' dream

00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:56.680
and our dreams will be
the realities of our grandchildren.

00:28:58.550 --> 00:29:03.020
Just as you come from far away,
I dreamt to have friends.

00:29:04.190 --> 00:29:08.630
You are not just coming here to my house,
but I have dreamed it.

00:29:10.590 --> 00:29:16.130
It's also a hunting dream, (which warns you that)
you're going to kill something:

00:29:16.370 --> 00:29:20.370
Some animal, tapir... anything.

00:29:20.370 --> 00:29:24.710
–But, when you dream bitter, it means snake?
–Yes.

00:29:24.710 --> 00:29:35.350
For example I dreamed about being poisoned

00:29:36.320 --> 00:29:40.560
and I'm so nauseous I just want to...

00:29:42.160 --> 00:29:47.300
like if I was dying, that' s how I woke up.

00:29:47.300 --> 00:29:48.870
I wondered why?

00:29:48.870 --> 00:29:52.870
I got up to see my cattle,
and I cut myself with the machete.

00:29:56.540 --> 00:29:59.610
Pedro had also had a bad dream
before he got lost.

00:30:01.380 --> 00:30:04.980
He, well, he didn't know
he was going to get lost.

00:30:05.620 --> 00:30:10.750
But he had said
«I had a bad dream last night».

00:30:11.490 --> 00:30:12.760
He dreamed so...

00:30:13.660 --> 00:30:15.830
then he got to lost

00:30:16.330 --> 00:30:18.030
when he went hunting.

00:30:19.730 --> 00:30:23.370
A kind of clairvoyance
covers us until dawn.

00:30:23.900 --> 00:30:27.570
Everyone's talking about Pedro.
About his disappearance in the woods.

00:30:27.600 --> 00:30:36.480
December 30th
15 days after Pedro's disappearance

00:30:39.720 --> 00:30:42.990
I called my son-in-law Wajari and told him:

00:30:42.990 --> 00:30:47.260
«There's a reason why you married
my daughter, you have to help me

00:30:47.660 --> 00:30:49.530
do your best until you find him».

00:30:49.660 --> 00:30:52.430
Because, as much as they searched,
they didn't find him.

00:31:02.470 --> 00:31:06.610
Without drinking chicha,
we went out to the woods.

00:31:08.250 --> 00:31:10.550
Achuar people do not get lost in the jungle.

00:31:11.620 --> 00:31:15.690
That's why they think Pedro
might have been bitten by a poisonous snake

00:31:15.690 --> 00:31:18.660
but they don't understand
why his body doesn't show up.

00:31:36.110 --> 00:31:41.080
Sometimes a tiger bites.

00:31:41.080 --> 00:31:45.680
Sometimes when a snake bites,
you can get lost if you have gone far.

00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:54.260
Sometimes he'll get lost, he can stay in the jungle,
for one night and the next day he would come back.

00:31:55.230 --> 00:31:57.360
His aunt finds a trace.

00:32:05.970 --> 00:32:07.740
Over here.

00:32:27.020 --> 00:32:31.190
There's some here, he walked through here.
Here you go, see?

00:32:31.830 --> 00:32:34.260
Suddenly they found his footprints

00:32:34.260 --> 00:32:35.730
in the deer's tracks.

00:32:35.730 --> 00:32:38.970
Why in the footsteps of my son
there are also deer footprints?

00:32:38.970 --> 00:32:42.770
Looks like your son was taken by the Devil.

00:32:44.940 --> 00:32:46.510
The Devil takes you sometimes.

00:33:00.320 --> 00:33:07.200
I went out looking for him,
I went out without drinking chicha.

00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.070
I walked so much.

00:33:17.810 --> 00:33:20.110
I'm desperate.

00:33:20.740 --> 00:33:23.380
I need to find my son's face.

00:33:26.050 --> 00:33:28.790
I can't stand his absence any more.

00:33:55.710 --> 00:34:00.980
I remembered that I had already heard
of the Devil in the stories of my friend Germán.

00:34:07.090 --> 00:34:08.590
Iwianch.

00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.960
The Devil who appears
in the form of a deer.

00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:21.100
The Devil who transforms.

00:34:23.770 --> 00:34:26.080
The Devil that can take you.

00:34:29.150 --> 00:34:33.120
Is the Devil around now?

00:34:33.120 --> 00:34:34.620
Is it loose?

00:34:34.620 --> 00:34:36.390
Yes, he must
be over there, alongside.

00:34:38.660 --> 00:34:40.260
Well, if you...

00:34:40.260 --> 00:34:42.690
if you lose like that

00:34:43.290 --> 00:34:46.200
if he loses his way, he would come back the next day.

00:34:46.260 --> 00:34:49.000
If not, when the Devil takes you,
you won't make it back.

00:34:50.100 --> 00:34:52.540
Is there a way to escape from the Devil alone?

00:34:52.540 --> 00:34:54.540
No, you won't make it alone.

00:34:54.540 --> 00:34:57.740
If he attacks you, there's no way to escape.

00:34:58.810 --> 00:35:00.580
It captures you easily.

00:35:03.750 --> 00:35:07.150
I thought I'd find him just by looking,
but I didn't!

00:35:07.150 --> 00:35:15.990
That's why I asked my family
members to help me find the Shaman.

00:35:49.690 --> 00:35:51.690
To get to the Shaman

00:35:52.300 --> 00:35:55.470
we have to go even deeper into the jungle.

00:35:57.800 --> 00:35:59.970
Wajari is ahead all the way

00:35:59.970 --> 00:36:02.840
and we're struggling to keep up the pace.

00:36:07.510 --> 00:36:10.280
He's used to walking long distances.

00:36:11.750 --> 00:36:13.680
The jungle is another place

00:36:14.550 --> 00:36:16.790
another state of mind and body.

00:36:35.210 --> 00:36:37.270
We will go to the Shaman.

00:36:38.340 --> 00:36:40.010
He's in there.

00:36:43.410 --> 00:36:45.520
Much further into this jungle.

00:37:57.250 --> 00:37:59.820
It's me, it's me, it's me.

00:38:01.160 --> 00:38:03.760
I call upon all my powers to give me strength.

00:38:06.060 --> 00:38:07.030
Strength!

00:38:07.660 --> 00:38:11.600
Jimpikit
Shaman

00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:30.850
I'm going alone to the mountain

00:38:31.320 --> 00:38:36.290
I go looking for beautiful places

00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:42.530
From the heights I look at the horizon

00:38:43.270 --> 00:38:48.540
I see the movement,
I see the flow of cruelty

00:38:51.370 --> 00:38:56.510
over the horizon the sun is setting

00:38:56.750 --> 00:39:02.950
and cruelty goes away with the sun

00:39:04.790 --> 00:39:09.090
Tigers, tigers, tigers, we are tigers...

00:39:09.090 --> 00:39:10.690
Me, Me, Me, Me...

00:39:12.560 --> 00:39:14.630
Come on!

00:39:15.130 --> 00:39:16.570
Let's be strong!

00:39:25.110 --> 00:39:30.210
He called me and told me
to sit next to him.

00:39:30.210 --> 00:39:35.390
and he saw my soul.

00:39:35.390 --> 00:39:37.690
He drank ayawasca...

00:39:40.060 --> 00:39:42.390
Since I was a kid I started drinking plants.

00:39:42.460 --> 00:39:44.890
When my father used to take me on a fast

00:39:44.890 --> 00:39:46.460
at the edge of the Waterfall.

00:39:47.260 --> 00:39:48.660
He sang like this:

00:39:50.200 --> 00:39:54.970
Grandpa I'm coming,
I'm your grandson

00:39:55.140 --> 00:39:59.410
Grandpa, Grandpa,
do me a favor

00:39:59.540 --> 00:40:03.050
like a tiger I walk

00:40:03.950 --> 00:40:05.780
I say grandpa

00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:10.420
I'm in charge and I raise my voice

00:40:10.520 --> 00:40:12.690
to give me your strength

00:40:12.690 --> 00:40:14.360
and I hold in my hand

00:40:14.360 --> 00:40:16.360
the juice of tobacco

00:41:38.340 --> 00:41:40.140
It's all burning!

00:41:44.480 --> 00:41:48.620
I invite all of my arrows

00:41:48.620 --> 00:41:54.190
to suck the cruelty

00:42:11.340 --> 00:42:15.510
If you want to come back

00:42:16.080 --> 00:42:21.420
you must enter the wormhole.

00:42:35.060 --> 00:42:36.670
«Your brother-in-law is alive

00:42:37.100 --> 00:42:39.100
he' s with the Devil», he said.

00:42:40.540 --> 00:42:43.670
I wanted to take the Shaman to Chinkianentsa.

00:42:43.670 --> 00:42:45.240
He didn't want to.

00:42:45.640 --> 00:42:48.640
So I said, «What am I going to do now?».

00:42:48.640 --> 00:42:52.580
He said «I prepare the perfume for you

00:42:52.580 --> 00:42:54.980
so, when you arrive home

00:42:54.980 --> 00:42:58.320
you can heal the whole house there

00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:03.030
around the house and where the boy went

00:43:03.390 --> 00:43:04.490
to get lost».

00:43:06.260 --> 00:43:08.200
And, I don't know how

00:43:08.200 --> 00:43:10.230
the powerful Shaman was guided to

00:43:11.000 --> 00:43:13.400
to the Devil where Pedro was.

00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:17.700
Find

00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:19.200
Arutam

00:44:19.600 --> 00:44:23.140
Facing your fears.

00:44:45.530 --> 00:44:49.400
I am always

00:44:49.570 --> 00:44:53.170
close to the tiger

00:44:53.570 --> 00:44:57.040
This tiger is my father

00:45:05.820 --> 00:45:08.250
To scape:

00:45:08.250 --> 00:45:10.190
In a corner of the house

00:45:10.350 --> 00:45:11.490
by the stove

00:45:11.750 --> 00:45:13.560
there's a piece of wood

00:45:13.560 --> 00:45:14.990
when no one is watching you

00:45:15.060 --> 00:45:16.360
remove the board

00:45:16.690 --> 00:45:18.360
you'll find the wormhole.

00:45:31.310 --> 00:45:33.810
I'm in the dense forest

00:45:34.110 --> 00:45:38.010
and those beings with
strange names who inhabited the stories

00:45:38.910 --> 00:45:40.680
are close by.

00:45:50.090 --> 00:45:54.830
Some have dreamt about it «Yes he is alive».

00:45:56.330 --> 00:45:59.140
My father in law said the same thing.

00:45:59.540 --> 00:46:05.470
«Shamans with their spirits,
beated the Devil and took Pedro from him».

00:46:09.310 --> 00:46:14.550
I was told that way,
someone told me in my dreams.

00:46:15.080 --> 00:46:18.190
«Your brother-in-law is alive,
but the Devil took him».

00:46:18.890 --> 00:46:25.060
«He could die next week»
the Shaman told me.

00:46:29.770 --> 00:46:30.830
Did you record this?

00:46:30.830 --> 00:46:31.230
Yes.

00:46:31.230 --> 00:46:33.240
Let's see, show me.

00:46:33.240 --> 00:46:33.540
Okay.

00:46:33.540 --> 00:46:38.210
Wajari,
does your mom knows a song to sing to the kids?

00:46:38.670 --> 00:46:40.040
To the babies?

00:46:40.040 --> 00:46:40.410
Yes.

00:46:40.410 --> 00:46:42.180
A song to put them to sleep.

00:46:42.950 --> 00:46:44.610
We could finish with that?

00:46:44.610 --> 00:46:50.450
Tell us about the song
you sing to kids before they sleep.

00:46:53.690 --> 00:46:55.930
So we can film you.

00:46:56.390 --> 00:46:57.930
I can't do it without the kids.

00:46:57.930 --> 00:47:01.900
Bring the children.

00:47:02.700 --> 00:47:05.030
Alexandra, come sing.

00:47:05.270 --> 00:47:06.700
Come sing.

00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.570
If you don't want to sing,
you can leave.

00:47:11.570 --> 00:47:15.410
Ruth, you come and sing.

00:47:15.710 --> 00:47:17.410
Just a short song, mommy.

00:47:35.030 --> 00:47:37.630
Do they like that?

00:47:37.630 --> 00:47:40.640
–Sing without laughing mommy.
–Let's see if I can remember.

00:47:40.640 --> 00:47:43.310
How can I sing a lullaby without a baby?

00:47:43.370 --> 00:47:48.140
Tsakap
Wajari's mom

00:47:56.120 --> 00:48:00.020
Just imagining?
I'm embarrassed to sing!

00:48:07.900 --> 00:48:13.500
The cicada always makes this sound if tomorrow the weather is good.

00:48:17.040 --> 00:48:20.840
Just notice the good weather tomorrow.

00:48:24.350 --> 00:48:26.820
I can't understand anything they are saying.

00:48:27.020 --> 00:48:30.190
Wajari some times translates something for me.

00:48:32.250 --> 00:48:37.230
December 31st
16 days since Pedro's disappearance

00:48:41.600 --> 00:48:46.600
Without saying much,
the Shaman Jimpikit already guessed.

00:48:46.740 --> 00:48:49.670
I was given the power to cure.

00:48:49.710 --> 00:48:51.770
We've been having this problem.

00:48:51.770 --> 00:48:55.510
My father-in-law
being his father and responsible for him,

00:48:55.540 --> 00:48:57.680
felt really sad.

00:48:58.580 --> 00:49:03.490
But now that the Shaman
claims he's alive, he's already smiling.

00:49:03.520 --> 00:49:08.760
He's a powerful Shaman who has already freed others from the Iwianch.

00:49:08.820 --> 00:49:14.630
We believe in him we know
that the young man will return.

00:49:19.030 --> 00:49:20.600
They talk about the demons

00:49:21.070 --> 00:49:22.500
they talk about witches.

00:49:23.070 --> 00:49:26.710
They speak of the dreams
that have revealed that Pedro is still alive.

00:49:28.740 --> 00:49:30.910
The tale is becoming true

00:49:31.380 --> 00:49:33.080
a myth comes to life

00:49:33.580 --> 00:49:37.320
a tale of the forest that
has brought us all together in this place.

00:49:38.650 --> 00:49:42.420
My father's house is protected
by the anaconda

00:49:48.260 --> 00:49:51.830
The Shaman told me

00:49:51.830 --> 00:49:53.840
not to cry.

00:49:55.570 --> 00:50:01.640
«Your son is still alive» he said.

00:50:01.910 --> 00:50:03.450
«Use your strength» I said.

00:50:03.680 --> 00:50:05.610
Do everything you can to find him.

00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:07.450
The Shaman answered:

00:50:08.520 --> 00:50:12.490
«He' s not going to show up here...
he will show up in an other community.

00:50:12.490 --> 00:50:15.760
There you will find your son».

00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:17.560
The Shaman told me.

00:50:18.330 --> 00:50:20.700
I felt happy, a bit, at least.

00:50:21.500 --> 00:50:26.440
Have you ever seen Iwianch?

00:50:26.440 --> 00:50:30.170
Actually, I haven't seen the Iwianch.

00:50:30.470 --> 00:50:34.610
But when he shows up there's a feeling.

00:50:34.610 --> 00:50:37.050
Like a bad sign.

00:50:37.050 --> 00:50:40.880
Like if you're dying.

00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:46.460
Your soul lets you know.

00:50:48.990 --> 00:50:52.630
Wajari's family decides
to celebrate New Year's eve.

00:50:54.600 --> 00:50:59.070
The party preparation doesn't allow me to talk more in depth with the elders.

00:51:38.110 --> 00:51:41.480
Are you okay with this film?
Is it all right for us to do the video?

00:51:41.480 --> 00:51:41.940
Shure.

00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:44.080
Yes, it's okay.

00:51:44.080 --> 00:51:46.420
No problem if you’re on video?

00:51:46.420 --> 00:51:50.220
- No, no... not at all.
-Oh, okay.

00:51:50.220 --> 00:51:55.120
Some day when I die,
I hope this archive footage remains

00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:59.930
people will see this as an old movie...

00:52:00.400 --> 00:52:03.000
Like Rambo and other movies

00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.070
other movies... there are plenty...

00:52:05.070 --> 00:52:09.970
Of what no longer exists
but has stayed around.

00:52:10.510 --> 00:52:11.210
Of course.

00:52:11.210 --> 00:52:11.710
Mmm...

00:52:16.810 --> 00:52:18.250
Susuki, don't disturb us!

00:52:23.290 --> 00:52:25.250
–Be carefull!
–Dah...

00:52:27.220 --> 00:52:28.290
Don't touch it!

00:52:36.030 --> 00:52:38.000
Are you gonna cook now?

00:52:39.130 --> 00:52:41.070
She will cook later.

00:52:41.200 --> 00:52:43.670
Only woman cook or do man cook too?

00:52:43.670 --> 00:52:45.040
No, only woman.

00:52:46.010 --> 00:52:49.980
When a man grabs that pottery

00:52:49.980 --> 00:52:51.880
according to tradition

00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:54.820
his wee-wee doesn't work

00:52:57.050 --> 00:52:59.590
won’t work for love making

00:53:01.290 --> 00:53:05.530
it stays soft, can't lift up.

00:53:05.530 --> 00:53:08.130
–So they say.
–What?

00:53:08.130 --> 00:53:10.200
Ha ha ha

00:53:10.200 --> 00:53:11.370
That's a tale...

00:53:11.570 --> 00:53:14.470
The Shaman has said
not to look for Pedro anymore.

00:53:15.140 --> 00:53:16.070
They should wait.

00:53:16.370 --> 00:53:18.840
Dreams have said that he will appear.

00:53:20.040 --> 00:53:22.980
And this is another good reason
to prepare the party.

00:53:45.700 --> 00:53:49.640
Iwianch, Devil or Demon.

00:53:49.710 --> 00:53:52.170
I would say...

00:53:52.710 --> 00:53:59.350
It's the jungle in the jungle,
mother of the jungle who takes care of the jungle.

00:53:59.350 --> 00:54:05.190
So they... for example:
someone wants to come in...

00:54:05.190 --> 00:54:06.860
we won't let them

00:54:06.860 --> 00:54:09.090
so they won't let us either.

00:54:09.090 --> 00:54:12.260
For example: there is a big tree

00:54:12.260 --> 00:54:17.130
and you can't
sleep under that tree

00:54:17.130 --> 00:54:20.000
because it won't let you sleep at night.

00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:24.270
I would say that there is someone there,
maybe the owner.

00:54:24.270 --> 00:54:28.410
And he says
«please don't come in here, this is my house».

00:54:28.410 --> 00:54:30.610
So that's more less the Iwianch.

00:54:31.610 --> 00:54:34.320
We would rather
respect each other.

00:54:35.350 --> 00:54:37.750
A person when is kidnaped by the Devil

00:54:37.750 --> 00:54:44.160
it changes its sense,
with the Devil's connection

00:54:44.160 --> 00:54:46.860
that's why where you see dry leaves

00:54:46.860 --> 00:54:49.560
the kidnapped person sees a mattress.

00:54:49.830 --> 00:54:54.840
Big trees he sees like
two-story wooden house.

00:54:56.640 --> 00:54:59.340
But once you see it by yourself

00:55:00.040 --> 00:55:01.140
it's just jungle

00:55:01.980 --> 00:55:04.210
pure, dense jungle.

00:55:04.980 --> 00:55:08.880
Once he takes them,
he changes the way they connect to reality.

00:55:09.990 --> 00:55:13.220
Pedro's imminent appearance
gave us some peace of mind

00:55:13.220 --> 00:55:15.820
in the rush of preparations for the party

00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:18.960
they tell me a little
bit more about this Achuar myth

00:55:19.260 --> 00:55:22.160
about the door that
takes you to the mythical world

00:55:22.630 --> 00:55:25.700
a world where the Iwianch
that everyone is talking about, exists.

00:55:26.100 --> 00:55:28.640
That's what I'm saying..
Once it gets you.

00:55:28.900 --> 00:55:31.770
It changes you and you think like them.

00:55:31.870 --> 00:55:34.540
Everything looks different

00:55:34.540 --> 00:55:36.780
in other words
you see a group people

00:55:36.780 --> 00:55:40.120
you know where people live.

00:55:40.120 --> 00:55:42.180
And that has happened.
That's reality.

00:55:42.180 --> 00:55:43.720
It has happened in the jungle.

00:55:43.720 --> 00:55:46.420
We have a lot of respect for the jungle.

00:56:01.340 --> 00:56:03.840
I believed in the profoundness of stories

00:56:05.340 --> 00:56:07.440
in the richness of its essence

00:56:08.940 --> 00:56:10.010
the myth

00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:14.880
a universe made of deep ideas and concepts

00:56:15.580 --> 00:56:16.790
metaphors

00:56:17.820 --> 00:56:21.460
a mirror of the inner dimension of matter.

00:56:22.220 --> 00:56:23.590
I believed in this...

00:56:24.060 --> 00:56:27.230
until my friend's brother-in-law
was taken by the Iwianch.

00:56:44.380 --> 00:56:47.720
I dedicate this music to my brave people

00:56:47.720 --> 00:56:50.950
Achuar and Shuar people

00:56:51.620 --> 00:56:54.460
the real defenders of "the lungs of the planet"

00:56:54.760 --> 00:56:56.790
my Amazon jungle

00:57:04.430 --> 00:57:06.070
To Trans Cutucu

00:57:06.400 --> 00:57:08.200
My town Taisha

00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:10.610
dances with this music

00:57:10.610 --> 00:57:14.010
From your son Pascual Kuja

00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:17.910
See you!

00:57:19.150 --> 00:57:20.180
Bye!

00:57:45.210 --> 00:57:48.280
Oh, these white people!

00:57:54.220 --> 00:57:55.980
The fire is so strong!

00:58:04.030 --> 00:58:06.160
Happy New Year!

00:58:06.760 --> 00:58:09.360
We all made it to new year alive.

00:58:09.360 --> 00:58:11.270
The new year has dawned.

00:58:29.620 --> 00:58:33.560
Those who say they go to God

00:58:33.660 --> 00:58:36.760
they often lie.

00:58:36.890 --> 00:58:39.130
Because, at the party of the spirits

00:58:39.130 --> 00:58:41.460
there are plenty of very attractive women.

00:58:41.460 --> 00:58:44.500
You eat all kinds of foods

00:58:44.500 --> 00:58:47.370
very delicious.

00:58:47.640 --> 00:58:52.970
The ladies who die young

00:58:52.970 --> 00:58:57.680
live freely togheter with the male spirits

00:58:57.680 --> 00:59:00.950
The spirits spend the night

00:59:00.950 --> 00:59:03.890
seeking sexual pleasures

00:59:05.020 --> 00:59:08.490
with the most seductive women.

00:59:14.600 --> 00:59:18.070
My grandfather used to tell me the story

00:59:18.070 --> 00:59:20.670
of Iwianch.

00:59:20.670 --> 00:59:22.170
–¿Iviash?
–Iwianch.

00:59:22.240 --> 00:59:23.870
–It's a demon.
–Oh.

00:59:23.940 --> 00:59:25.270
A ghost.

00:59:32.850 --> 00:59:34.380
When an Achuar dies

00:59:35.250 --> 00:59:39.890
he doesn't go to either hell or heaven

00:59:42.190 --> 00:59:46.560
he simply transforms, and returns to mother nature.

00:59:47.930 --> 00:59:49.970
If my father dies

00:59:49.970 --> 00:59:53.940
and I'm suffering living in this world

00:59:54.340 --> 00:59:58.770
...suffering a lot,
and I really want to be with my father.

00:59:58.770 --> 01:00:02.840
And he also wants to be with me
then he can take me...

01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:05.810
so I transf..
Iwianch comes and takes me.

01:00:07.780 --> 01:00:12.690
Once I'm dead

01:00:13.190 --> 01:00:15.720
my relatives say goodbye to me.

01:00:16.830 --> 01:00:17.730
I have become...

01:00:21.360 --> 01:00:22.760
...Iwianch.

01:01:20.790 --> 01:01:22.890
You are welcome.

01:01:27.530 --> 01:01:30.630
January 1st
17 days of Pedro's disappearance

01:01:31.030 --> 01:01:33.030
And with the arrival of the new year...

01:01:33.540 --> 01:01:34.440
Pedro...

01:01:34.700 --> 01:01:35.500
appeared.

01:01:37.740 --> 01:01:39.610
The spirit of the Shaman

01:01:39.910 --> 01:01:41.480
took Pedro

01:01:42.640 --> 01:01:46.820
return to the path,
and then he made it back.

01:01:47.220 --> 01:01:50.320
So, in Pumpuentza
Pedro was found by

01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:53.250
the teacher Pedro Tsmarent.

01:01:54.620 --> 01:01:56.360
He was the one who found...?

01:01:56.360 --> 01:01:57.330
Pedro.

01:01:58.060 --> 01:02:00.660
Yesterday once again.

01:02:00.700 --> 01:02:03.500
I went looking for his tracks.

01:02:03.500 --> 01:02:04.670
and night fell.

01:02:05.330 --> 01:02:07.600
It was about five o'clock

01:02:07.600 --> 01:02:09.400
when they told me

01:02:09.440 --> 01:02:12.340
that my son had appeared
in the Pumpuentza community.

01:02:12.340 --> 01:02:14.610
Several people began to notify us

01:02:14.610 --> 01:02:22.080
that my son Marcelo
had already gone out to find him.

01:02:22.120 --> 01:02:24.120
I was happy again
«Thanks to the Lord».

01:02:24.390 --> 01:02:25.250
Now.

01:02:25.690 --> 01:02:29.790
I'm told they've taken
him straight to the Hospital in Macas City.

01:02:29.790 --> 01:02:31.690
Go and bring him back.

01:02:36.630 --> 01:02:38.100
We leave to meet Pedro.

01:02:38.900 --> 01:02:41.100
My head's caught up in thoughts:

01:02:42.270 --> 01:02:43.710
Where does the myth end?

01:02:43.910 --> 01:02:46.510
What have I witnessed during this time?

01:02:46.840 --> 01:02:49.140
Where did Pedro go when he got lost?

01:02:49.510 --> 01:02:51.010
What is Iwianch?

01:02:51.680 --> 01:02:53.580
Did the Shaman bring him back?

01:02:53.950 --> 01:02:56.850
What will Pedro have to say about his experience?

01:03:04.990 --> 01:03:06.360
Have a wonderful journey.

01:03:06.360 --> 01:03:07.930
«Fare well» she says.

01:03:07.930 --> 01:03:09.500
Thank you.
Likewise.

01:03:09.500 --> 01:03:11.970
–Yes.
–Yes.

01:03:12.770 --> 01:03:15.700
How could he survive 17 days alone in the jungle?

01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:17.340
What did he eat?

01:03:17.640 --> 01:03:18.770
Where did he sleep?

01:03:19.140 --> 01:03:21.610
How often does the devil take a human?

01:03:22.080 --> 01:03:23.680
Or what took Pedro?

01:03:28.720 --> 01:03:30.550
Do dreams speaks to us?

01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:32.190
What is a tale?

01:03:36.790 --> 01:03:40.300
And how did we end up
in the middle of this story?

01:03:49.400 --> 01:03:50.540
That little one...

01:03:52.410 --> 01:03:54.010
So tiny.

01:03:55.280 --> 01:03:57.310
Yeah, they sting hard, really hard.

01:03:57.750 --> 01:04:00.220
You feel like you' re burning up.

01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:17.160
General Hospital Macas

01:05:26.530 --> 01:05:28.740
Restricted Area

01:05:50.790 --> 01:05:53.900
Does Pedro speaks
Spanish so I can ask him something?

01:05:54.060 --> 01:05:56.660
No.
No he doesn't.

01:05:56.660 --> 01:05:58.670
Oh, so he is not
speaking much right now.

01:05:58.930 --> 01:06:00.230
–It's okay.
–Yes.

01:06:01.940 --> 01:06:03.070
That's right.

01:06:03.070 --> 01:06:03.670
Yes.

01:06:03.940 --> 01:06:05.670
Anything he'd like to say?

01:06:05.910 --> 01:06:09.540
This video is going to be sent to Wajari,
to the people.

01:06:15.520 --> 01:06:17.850
Can you speak at all?

01:06:19.790 --> 01:06:22.420
They're going to send
the video to Dad.

01:06:23.590 --> 01:06:24.830
They're filming.

01:06:24.830 --> 01:06:28.300
Do you want to talk?

01:06:30.200 --> 01:06:31.370
He can't talk.

01:06:32.870 --> 01:06:35.140
–Okay.
–Its okay.

01:06:36.270 --> 01:06:38.310
–Now he's getting better.
–Aha.

01:06:38.310 --> 01:06:39.270
My brother

01:06:39.270 --> 01:06:40.140
–Yes, yes, yes.
–Yes.

01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:43.280
Before... before.

01:06:44.210 --> 01:06:48.680
He couldn't walk.
And he couldn't eat.

01:06:50.220 --> 01:06:53.050
And he didn't have the strength.

01:06:53.050 --> 01:06:54.690
He had

01:06:55.820 --> 01:06:58.830
malnutrition.

01:06:58.830 --> 01:07:00.930
He's okay now.

01:07:00.930 --> 01:07:05.430
It's just that he was in the jungle
for several days, 17 days.

01:07:05.430 --> 01:07:06.930
Yes, 17 days.

01:07:07.600 --> 01:07:11.240
Pedro has told you something
about his experience in the jungle?

01:07:11.240 --> 01:07:13.570
What did he do during the 17 days?

01:07:13.570 --> 01:07:14.580
I don't know.

01:07:17.980 --> 01:07:19.610
The Devil.

01:07:20.150 --> 01:07:21.620
That's what he says. Is it?

01:07:21.620 --> 01:07:23.620
Yes, the Devil took him.

01:07:23.620 --> 01:07:30.220
We found him after 17 days.

01:07:32.830 --> 01:07:39.770
That's why we came here to the Hospital in Macas.

01:07:49.010 --> 01:07:55.350
Yes... and when the Devil appeared to him,
what did he look like? An animal or as a person?

01:07:55.980 --> 01:07:58.350
Yes, he came out as a person.

01:08:01.120 --> 01:08:02.420
Grandma.

01:08:02.990 --> 01:08:04.490
Oh, like grandma!

01:08:04.490 --> 01:08:05.890
Yes.
Grandma.

01:08:07.400 --> 01:08:11.100
Why do you think the Devil took him?

01:08:11.100 --> 01:08:13.100
I don't know.

01:08:13.670 --> 01:08:15.570
I don't know, the Devil.

01:08:16.500 --> 01:08:17.470
You don't know, do you?

01:08:17.470 --> 01:08:18.940
No I don't , No I don't ...

01:08:24.150 --> 01:08:25.910
I don't know.

01:08:25.910 --> 01:08:27.120
He knows.

01:08:30.550 --> 01:08:35.060
It's been six months since we saw Pedro in the hospital.

01:08:35.060 --> 01:08:39.060
Pedro was taken by the Iwianch.

01:08:40.090 --> 01:08:41.460
He lost his speech.

01:08:42.000 --> 01:08:44.030
like in the 70’s it happened

01:08:44.030 --> 01:08:47.030
to a Spanish missionary

01:08:47.030 --> 01:08:49.340
of whom I found a chronicle.

01:08:52.010 --> 01:08:56.780
"It took him 15 days
to recover from the scare".

01:09:00.280 --> 01:09:02.250
Was Pedro taken by the Iwianch?

01:09:23.170 --> 01:09:31.910
Is there a portal in the virgin jungle, which allows
the connection between the living and the dead?

01:09:33.850 --> 01:09:38.190
Doesn't the Devil take anyone from the city?

01:09:39.990 --> 01:09:45.290
Are the virgin territories
the place we go when we die?

01:10:04.850 --> 01:10:07.320
When you become a spirit

01:10:07.320 --> 01:10:09.380
you go to the spirit world

01:10:09.680 --> 01:10:12.050
Go to the world of Iwianch

01:10:12.050 --> 01:10:13.520
stay in Iwianch world

01:10:14.120 --> 01:10:18.330
You go to the caves, you go to a tree

01:10:18.860 --> 01:10:22.830
When you die, you go to the sacred Waterfalls

01:10:23.060 --> 01:10:25.800
You don't come to disturb the earthly beings

01:10:25.830 --> 01:10:27.700
not even in their dreams

01:10:27.900 --> 01:10:31.670
Go bother the person who killed you

01:10:32.610 --> 01:10:36.840
Go bother the person
who put a spell on you

01:11:16.080 --> 01:11:18.650
My brother-in-law Pedro
is doing much better.

01:11:18.650 --> 01:11:20.820
He's already strong
and has gain weight.

01:11:21.120 --> 01:11:24.330
He's talking
he can tell you about Iwianch.

01:11:24.330 --> 01:11:26.030
Come visit.

01:11:45.510 --> 01:11:47.920
This is the story of the last journey

01:11:48.080 --> 01:11:49.620
in search of Pedro

01:11:49.620 --> 01:11:52.250
the one who crossed the portal.

01:11:58.730 --> 01:12:04.930
Chinkianentsa
June

01:12:08.570 --> 01:12:10.170
We found Pedro.

01:12:10.810 --> 01:12:11.940
He's strong.

01:12:11.940 --> 01:12:13.610
He's in good health.

01:12:13.610 --> 01:12:15.980
He enjoys his friends and family.

01:12:34.860 --> 01:12:36.500
But he doesn't talk to us.

01:12:37.130 --> 01:12:38.930
During the time he was recovering

01:12:39.400 --> 01:12:42.340
Pedro wanted to go back with Iwianch

01:12:43.300 --> 01:12:45.510
this time, voluntarily.

01:12:46.240 --> 01:12:49.610
We heard all this from his family

01:12:51.180 --> 01:12:53.080
the experience is recent

01:12:53.580 --> 01:12:55.620
Pedro doesn't talk to us.

01:13:15.070 --> 01:13:16.540
Listen! Behold

01:13:16.940 --> 01:13:19.570
a sower went out to sow

01:13:20.540 --> 01:13:24.010
and as he sowed,
some seed fell along the path

01:13:24.010 --> 01:13:25.810
and the birds came and devoured it...

01:13:44.330 --> 01:13:47.870
Since he lived with Iwianch,
he now has communication with them.

01:13:47.870 --> 01:13:50.570
They're calling him and
he wants to go with them.

01:13:51.370 --> 01:13:55.880
Catechists arrived
and gave him a rosary.

01:13:55.880 --> 01:13:59.610
The priest had blessed that rosary.

01:14:03.650 --> 01:14:04.990
Hi Pedro.

01:14:06.090 --> 01:14:12.790
Pedro lost his mind,
he had a spell that kept him possessed.

01:14:13.190 --> 01:14:14.700
He escaped to the jungle.

01:14:19.670 --> 01:14:21.700
But fortunately we caught him on time

01:14:21.700 --> 01:14:24.310
if we don't cure him,
he'll probably run away again.

01:14:27.310 --> 01:14:29.640
Come back.

01:14:29.640 --> 01:14:31.650
Iwianch
Iwianch

01:14:31.650 --> 01:14:35.050
Take me with you
take me with you

01:14:35.050 --> 01:14:36.450
Is coming...

01:14:36.450 --> 01:14:40.090
Take me in
take me in

01:14:40.150 --> 01:14:43.520
Give me your food

01:14:46.190 --> 01:14:47.900
If Iwianch comes

01:14:48.230 --> 01:14:49.130
you

01:14:49.130 --> 01:14:51.970
everyone in the house
sit behind me.

01:14:53.530 --> 01:14:55.800
Pedro, do you want...

01:14:56.540 --> 01:14:57.840
to dance?

01:15:05.880 --> 01:15:06.850
Come back...

01:15:07.950 --> 01:15:08.680
Come back...

01:15:46.190 --> 01:15:48.160
Has he puked yet?

01:15:48.160 --> 01:15:48.820
Yes.

01:15:50.190 --> 01:15:55.800
«When I was taken by Iwianch,
they gave me a girl» he said

01:15:56.660 --> 01:16:00.100
then he wanted to make love

01:16:00.330 --> 01:16:02.700
and then he had a son

01:16:03.100 --> 01:16:04.570
and Pedro told me:

01:16:04.570 --> 01:16:06.840
«I was told in a dream she gave birth

01:16:07.410 --> 01:16:09.310
she wants me to visit my son»

01:16:09.310 --> 01:16:10.740
he said.

01:16:10.740 --> 01:16:13.680
Thus, through the dream,
the Iwianch woman communicates

01:16:14.110 --> 01:16:17.320
I mean,
Iwianch wanted to take him back!

01:16:17.320 --> 01:16:19.550
Because they already gave the girl.

01:16:19.950 --> 01:16:24.630
–So in his dream she appeared to Pedro?
–No, she clearly wanted to take him!

01:16:24.630 --> 01:16:25.990
–Mmm
–Ahh…

01:16:26.330 --> 01:16:27.900
17 days

01:16:27.900 --> 01:16:30.230
–Yes.
–With no food.

01:16:30.230 --> 01:16:32.700
–With no food…
–Who would put up with that?

01:16:33.470 --> 01:16:38.410
–Iwianch.
–Iwianch gave him worms to eat.

01:16:39.270 --> 01:16:40.910
And they gave him that.

01:16:52.250 --> 01:16:55.160
We go to the place where Pedro got lost.

01:17:28.820 --> 01:17:32.260
He did want to return to Iwianch
when he first came back home

01:17:33.560 --> 01:17:35.160
he was about to escape

01:17:35.160 --> 01:17:37.560
but we led him to the Shaman

01:17:38.100 --> 01:17:42.070
and the Shaman cut off his connection to the Devil.

01:17:42.500 --> 01:17:47.980
After you cut that off,
you don't worry about him going to the Devil.

01:17:47.980 --> 01:17:49.080
He' s calm.

01:17:49.080 --> 01:17:51.080
Calm now.

01:17:51.810 --> 01:17:57.950
Now tell us about the Iwianch woman
Do you still love her?

01:18:00.550 --> 01:18:01.490
You love her?

01:18:04.590 --> 01:18:08.700
He doesn't want to say…
Well «that's all» he can't say more.

01:18:11.130 --> 01:18:13.030
Pedro is silent.

01:18:13.400 --> 01:18:15.740
He doesn't talk to me or Wajari.

01:18:17.940 --> 01:18:20.670
We respect the mystery and his silence.

01:18:55.880 --> 01:18:57.610
Pedro, do you want to listen?

01:19:05.990 --> 01:19:07.090
Say hello José

01:19:07.420 --> 01:19:08.660
Say: «Hi, Joe».

01:19:11.390 --> 01:19:13.260
Hi, Pedro my friend!

01:19:15.560 --> 01:19:17.030
And listen to the sound of...

01:19:23.940 --> 01:19:24.970
Can you hear?

01:19:27.210 --> 01:19:27.810
Listen.

01:19:28.280 --> 01:19:29.680
Do you still have audio?

01:19:42.760 --> 01:19:43.690
What is that?

01:19:44.930 --> 01:19:46.360
Can you smell it?

01:19:46.490 --> 01:19:47.930
It's coming...

01:19:52.270 --> 01:19:53.770
Remember.

01:19:54.670 --> 01:19:56.540
Don't be scared.

01:20:04.480 --> 01:20:06.580
I loved her

01:20:07.350 --> 01:20:09.520
And also...

01:20:10.150 --> 01:20:14.520
I loved my dad.

01:20:14.960 --> 01:20:16.890
I thought of my dad.

01:20:16.890 --> 01:20:19.860
The Devil gave me a smack

01:20:20.630 --> 01:20:24.060
caught me by surprise.

01:20:25.000 --> 01:20:28.040
He hit me and said «Let's go this way».

01:20:28.500 --> 01:20:30.500
He finally carried me

01:20:31.570 --> 01:20:35.510
and many deer started coming.

01:20:37.110 --> 01:20:40.580
They took me to the house

01:20:40.610 --> 01:20:43.380
of my deceased grandmother.

01:20:43.550 --> 01:20:45.950
She gave me her food.

01:20:46.350 --> 01:20:49.660
«You will eat... Why don't you eat?» she said

01:20:50.460 --> 01:20:53.430
But I didn't want to.

01:20:54.560 --> 01:20:58.430
She put the food away,
and she said «Let's go that way

01:20:58.830 --> 01:21:04.400
your family can find out you're here».

01:21:05.540 --> 01:21:07.410
I had my shotgun.

01:21:09.110 --> 01:21:12.410
I was allowed to carry it.

01:21:12.710 --> 01:21:15.980
As we walked

01:21:16.720 --> 01:21:19.490
I carried the shotgun in my hands.

01:21:20.890 --> 01:21:23.960
One of the dead said to me
«Let me see your shotgun»

01:21:23.960 --> 01:21:26.030
so I gave him my shotgun.

01:21:26.160 --> 01:21:30.930
And this Iwianch said,
«I’ll carry the shotgun because I’m  older».

01:21:31.470 --> 01:21:35.100
I never got my shotgun back.

01:21:35.300 --> 01:21:37.740
So we kept walking

01:21:37.740 --> 01:21:40.640
there we met the Kakua deer.

01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:43.680
They started bothering me.

01:21:43.680 --> 01:21:46.310
My grandmother told them:

01:21:46.410 --> 01:21:49.480
«Why are you bothering him?»,
«"He's my family, don't bother him».

01:21:50.880 --> 01:21:53.250
They kept on bothering...

01:21:53.250 --> 01:21:58.690
and confronted
the power of my grandmother.

01:21:59.030 --> 01:22:02.530
My grandmother beat them.

01:22:03.030 --> 01:22:06.630
We returned to the house

01:22:08.070 --> 01:22:10.700
to the Deer house.

01:22:13.870 --> 01:22:18.310
We found the kids in the house.

01:22:20.610 --> 01:22:22.420
Was it?

01:22:23.080 --> 01:22:27.720
The kids asked: «Who's he?»

01:22:27.750 --> 01:22:30.120
«He's my family» my grandmother said.

01:22:30.120 --> 01:22:36.860
For his welcoming
we're going to have a party.

01:22:36.860 --> 01:22:43.370
Guests arrived at the party

01:22:43.370 --> 01:22:48.610
musicians prepared songs.

01:22:48.610 --> 01:22:54.680
They took a while to set up the party.

01:22:55.720 --> 01:22:59.090
When everything was ready,
the musicians started.

01:22:59.090 --> 01:23:03.890
They were a group of musicians
who called themselves "Yampitzito".

01:23:03.890 --> 01:23:06.260
They played the music

01:23:06.260 --> 01:23:09.030
and everyone started dancing

01:23:09.030 --> 01:23:14.470
and then they told me to dance, too.

01:23:14.470 --> 01:23:16.870
I told them that I didn't know how to dance.

01:23:16.870 --> 01:23:20.940
They kept insisting
«You do know how to dance».

01:23:20.940 --> 01:23:25.510
«Then stay there»
they told me and there they left me...

01:24:20.970 --> 01:24:24.810
Now the sound of the jungle
surround us completely

01:24:25.510 --> 01:24:27.940
a sound that comes from all sides.

01:24:29.280 --> 01:24:32.850
Sometimes I think maybe
in the jungle stories happen...

01:24:33.180 --> 01:24:38.190
because the sounds of modernity
do not overshadow the ancient voices.

01:24:55.900 --> 01:25:02.080
In Memory of Kunchikui
Pedro's father
1953 - 2019

01:26:02.440 --> 01:26:11.810
All the land that appears in this documentary
is concessioned by the government of Ecuador
for oil and mining extraction.

01:27:27.050 --> 01:27:30.260
Ambience sound of sunset.