The Kogis's Pandemics

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FAKULTET DRAMSKIH UMETNOSTI KATEDRA MONTAŽE BEOGRAD 2012/2013 Seminarski rad Predmet: Engleski jezik 3 Aluna Mentor: Student: Ljiljana Bogoeva Sedlar, prof. Andrijana Krčmar, 4633 Certain people have cast a shadow over the Earth, seeking to destroy the life in it. Their obscure intention is scattered across different biopolitical centers of power which strive to achieve triumph in committing this crime. There, where their masked agents act, almost incurable pandemics have been spread. These agents are very professional, highly competitive, determined and have decision making power, most of them are politicians (people with major impact). People who act to their own gain regardless of ruthless consequences.…show more content…
The Kogis now live scattered around in small communities in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in thatch-roofed huts and are guided by their leader, whom they call Mama. The community has at its core the obligation to support the Mamas, who are much more than its leaders and guides. They survived as a culture because the Kogi focus all their energy on the life of the mind as opposed to the life of a body or an individual. Fundamental to that survival is the maintenance of physical separation from their world and our own. The Kogi do not allow anyone into their land. They are very protective of their sacred space and the dense jungle is not kind to tourists. Very few Colombians dare enter into their territory. The Kogi believe they are the "Elder Brothers," the guardians of life on Earth. Through their mind power and meditation they keep the world in balance. They believe that the material world is the physical trace of a thought-world sustained in ’Aluna’. Aluna is pure thought and pure energy - the energy of life. Memory and potential, past and…show more content…
Everything was dark. There was no sun, no moon, no people, no plants. There was only the sea everywhere. In the sea was the Mother. She was water and water was everywhere. Thus, at first, there was only the Mother. The Mother was neither people nor anything; she was nothing. She was alúna. Then, with the Mother existing in this manner, all the worlds above the lowest one were formed. First there was the Mother and the water and darkness. The first dawn had not yet occurred.” page 63 ( "The Elder Brothers" by Alan Ereira) ‘In the beginning, there was blackness. Only the sea. In the beginning there was no sun, no moon, no people. In the beginning there were no animals, no plants. Only the sea. The sea was the Mother. The Mother was not people, she was not anything. Nothing at all. She was when she was, darkly. She was memory and

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