O QUE SEGURA OS CÉUS?
Cristine Takuá
14 de março de 2024
The native palm trees of Nhe'ërÿ have held up the skies since the beginning of the creation of the world and the beings that inhabit it. The blue sky that exists today reflects the foliage of the blue palm trees that, at the beginning of the world, made this transition between the worlds we inhabit.
There are many palm trees that, with their beauty, straw, fruit and shade, have been enchanting and sustaining life here in the middle of the forest.
Em fevereiro, organizamos na Escola Viva Guarani uma oficina para produzir junto dos jovens os desenhos de algumas espécies de palmeiras para compor a exposição Mba’é Ka’á, o que tem na mata: Barbosa Rodrigues entre plantas e pajés, que acontece entre 08 de março e 08 de setembro, no museu do Jardim Botânico, no Rio de Janeiro.
Coordenada por Carlos Papá, a oficina proporcionou uma leitura e observação atenta do livro Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensis, de J. Barbosa Rodrigues, e também caminhadas na floresta da Aldeia Rio Silveira, para ver e reconhecer as palmeiras que estão ao nosso redor.
Those were days of great excitement and listening to the stories told by Papa about the importance of palm trees for the balance of the forest and for sustaining the skies that we have inhabited since the beginning of the original darkness.
Some children, along with their parents, also created drawings that reflected their perceptions of the palm trees they had seen and together we created a beautiful presentation of 10 species.
The blue palm trees
Are spiritual beings
From a cosmological world
They show us the portals
Between worlds.
In the forest there are native beings
Jataí, Jussara, Jerivá
Guaricanga, Brejaúba, Butiá
Bitter Jejy ró, Tuku, Indaiá
Palm heart species
Palm trees
That feed and enchant
Shade our walk
They cover houses
And cover the forest
With a deep green colour.
Nhe'ërÿ, land of palm trees
That keep sustaining our walk
In this land
……..Cristine Takuá……..
Drawings produced at the Guarani workshop, 2024