Moonblood : a Yanomamo Creation Myth as Told by Dedeheiwa
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Chagnon Napoleon A (1938-....) ; Asch Timothy (1932-1994) ; Documentary Educational Resources ;
- Editeurs : Watertown Documentary Educational Resources [éd., distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : 2005
- Sujets : Films documentaires -- Amérique, Films ethnographiques, Yanomami (Indiens), Yanomami (langue), Venezuela
- Langue(s) : Anglais, Indiennes d'Amérique du Sud, autres langues
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD vidéo monoface simple couche zone 0 (29 min), Coul. (SECAM)
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : Yanomamo series
Notes
Film en version originale en anglais et yanomami. Sous-titres et commentaires en anglais ; Tourné au Venezuela en 1975
Résumé
In this myth, the Yanomamo account for the creation of human beings and for their ferocity. The myth is told by the shaman Dedeheiwa. Long ago, when people 'like us' lived in a village 'over there,' Moon lived there too, and ate the souls of children. The villagers became very angry, especially because when Moon descended to consume the ashes of children, hanging from the roof in gourds, he crunched and chanted as he gloated over his evil tricks. So the ancestor Suhirina, who was very beautiful and tall, shot the moon with a bamboo-tipped arrow, and Moon's blood spilled all over the earth. Human beings came from this blood: strong and fierce people from the center where the most blood spilled, and weaker people from the Moon's droplets. You are from true blood, Dedeheiwa tells Chagnon, because there are many of you; my own village is weak, as we are descended from the droplets. It is because of Moon's blood, explains the shaman, that men fight and kill each other.