THE PEOPLE OF THE ANACONDA and THEIR YURUPARI LEGEND: Individual and Collective Lessons from the Amazon Jungle.
(English/Spanish) The People of the Anaconda (La Gente de la Anaconda), who live along the Pirá Paraná River in the Amazon, recount that the "songs of birds" gave rise to the flutes used in the initiation rites of young men in Indigenous communities. They also tell of the ancestral anaconda, who transformed into a human being and became embodied in the sacred trumpets and flutes employed during these initiation ceremonies in the Amazon jungle (Hugh-Jones, 1979; Orju
