Jacinto Zarabata’s Visit To London.
Hi,
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I hope that you had an excellent weekend.
We had a very, very damp one here because it never stopped raining at all.
I am surprised that we are not all tiny from shrinkage after being soaking wet so often, I mean if you waited for it to actually stop before you went out, then you would rarely leave the house.
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Talking about being tiny, did you read the comments made by one of the Kogi Mamos elders, Jacinto Zarabata, when he finally arrived in the Uk from his Colombian mountain village, to help complete the film that his friend Alan Ereira has been completing.
You may remember the post that I did recently about the warning broadcast that the tribesmen sent out globally at the end of September.
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He said that when he first arrived in the UK last week, he could not believe how huge the people here are.
He felt that they were real monsters compared to him because he is only waist high to the vast majority of them.
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It was fascinating to hear his reactions to our world, coming from someone who lives a simple, basic, spiritual and unchanging life close to his people, in their isolated home in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Maria.
Apparently their home is not even recorded on any maps of the area at all and there are no roads to it either.
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He was surprised by the underground and although he had been keen to go on a train he was shocked to find that there were so many rats living there.
The live rails that could electrocute him were also a bit of an eye-opener.
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Although he found the food too strange and complicated for someone used to a simple fare of mainly vegetables and the chewing of toasted coca leaves, he found a half of Shandy to be outstandingly enjoyable, this being his first taste of alcohol.
He was, of course, a bit taken aback to see the huge pints of beer being necked at a prodigious rate of knots by the giants surrounding him on a typical Friday night’s drinking.
Women and men both!
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The idea of being shut into the observation pods on the London Eye, with a crowd of strange people in order to be carried aloft was very unpleasant to him, although he did like Big Ben.
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It is interesting that he did not feel out-of-place walking around London in his white rough cotton robes and cotton shoulder bags, whereas he found some of our fashions, and the idea of people wearing burka and niqab with only their eyes showing, to be amazingly different.
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The thing that distressed him most was to see all of the collections from around the world that are on display in the British Museum.
Artifacts from his own country, Colombia, were there too and he could not understand why we had taken things belonging to other peoples.
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He did find it hard to be without his family during this rare time away from them.
Luckily he could speak to them but found it hard to get his head around the idea of there being time differences between different parts of the world.
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The tribe have been hoping that little brother( the west), will now listen to them and stop destroying the earth before it is too late.
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The Kogi film sounds well worth seeing when it is finally finished.
J.
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