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one of the most violent on the planet in them, and that therefore they needed to asking you a million questions, they want
the history of homo sapiens, because the be eliminated. So, since the 16th century, to know “how do you live, what are your
holocaust of these original peoples that I am in the conquest of America, the focus has daughters like? What are your children like?
reporting in my films, and which began with been on destroying the cultural identity of How do you get laid? what do you drink?
biological warfare, was consolidated by an the local people. And they understood war why do you drink? Why don’t you drink?”
ideological-religious process, a process very quickly. The Jesuits were strategists. They’re ultra-curious, that’s really cool. It
of burning, an inquisition against local We cannot forget that the Jesuits have a was a characteristic of the process, of the
religions in which shamans were burned. military origin because Ignatius of Loyola, civilizational encounter, but the Europeans
There are reports, in Jesuit letters, of taking this priest (and I think he was even beatified) were in this place of control the entire time.
a shaman, in São Vicente (Sp), putting him in who founded the Jesuit congregation, and So, in the narratives, the shamans won over
the mouth of a cannon and firing a cannon received a lot of money from the Church the indigenous people; they experimented
shot in front of everyone. They called all in the 16th century, he was a military man with Catholics but returned to their habits.
the Tupiniquins here and said: “Ah, is this . He fought, I don’t remember if for the The problem started when the pandemic
your badass? OK”. They tied the guy up, Kingdom of Castile, he participated in came. The problem was “Covid”. Because
put him in the mouth of the cannon and troops, he led troops. So he took to the Covid didn’t start now, Covid started in the
exploded the cannon. For everyone to see, Jesuit congregation of the church, which he 16th century with the arrival of Europeans.
the guy’s body was torn apart, and then founded, the Society of Jesus, a principle But Covid was called flu, called measles,
they said: “This is how we do it with your of military strategies, of field diagnostic called chicken pox, called smallpox, called
medicine men”. 200, 300 locals saw that. analysis, of how to act. The structure rubella: a series of viruses that didn’t exist
“Then come to our religion.” And it was of the Jesuits was very military; It is no here that decimated the people. And that’s
like that, an extremely violent process of surprise that they formed indigenous when the pig twists its tail, that things were
domination. And it’s not over, it continues. armies, formed the Seven Peoples of the reversed: the shamans had a “health plan”,
The ex-shaman is a documentary in Missions, which was highly militarized, the shaman’s card solved everything, there
which we follow the life of a shaman who and waged a war against the Spanish was hospitalization in the network, there
is being slaughtered by the arrival of the that was of interest to the Portuguese were all things from the forest, the shamans
evangelical church, and the film is all Crown, when the Spanish tried to enter already they knew how to do everything
about that, but it actually reflects what the south of the country to expand the with medicine from the forest.
has been happening since the arrival of territory in a war against Portugal. And With healing from the forest and all
the Europeans, the Portuguese and the those who held back the wave were the the spiritual treatment of prayers and
French, mainly. Because the French also Jesuits, with an army of Guaranis. So, they such, the process here was very healthy.
arrived here with the Capuchins, the had this military structure. This is, if I’m A series of worms that Europeans suffered
Capuchin priests, in Rio de Janeiro and not mistaken, from the 17th century. But, from, the indigenous people did not suffer
Maranhão, and did the same extremely before that, they always worked like this from because they knew the stomach and
violent evangelization work that the Jesuits and these letters, which are many, have intestinal cures. There were botflies here, a
did in the Portuguese colonization process. several reports in Bahia, reports in São series of mosquitoes laid their eggs in the
And there are reports from both to attest to Paulo, reports on the coast of São Paulo, of Europeans, their flesh creating mosquito
this. We have reports on the activities of the them talking about the evangelization and eggs. And there are a thousand reports
Capuchins in Maranhão, we have reports village process, which is what they called it. from indigenous people, saying that
on the activities of the Capuchins there on The strategy was to bring several villages to shamans cured this with spider venom.
Ilha do Governador, in Guanabara Bay, with the same field, to the same territory, to the Now they are using spider venom to cure
the missionaries Jean de Léry (1536-1613) same place and evangelize these people. cancer (there is new research from the
and André Thevet (1516-1590), and there Evangelizing, understand, consisted of Butantã Institute that shows the potential
in Maranhão, Claude D›Abbeville (d. 1632). selling the idea of Christ and destroying of spider venom against leukemia). So,
In their description of the evangelization the ideas of spiritual religiosity that existed the shamans already mastered this, but
process in Maranhão, they report that they here in America. the shamans had no knowledge against
burned shamans and shamans. And we And they had work. Historical and “Covid”. They didn’t know how to deal with
have reports of the Jesuits writing to the anthropological research, based on these chickenpox, smallpox, measles, there
Pope, also writing to Ignatius of Loyola original letters, makes it very clear to us was no such knowledge. So when these
(1491-1556), who was the head of the Jesuit that they were successful in this process outbreaks arrived, entire villages died from
congregation. Loyola stayed in Spain for a not because the Christian narratives were the pandemic with the covid at the time,
while, then he was in Rome and the letters so strong and better than the shamans’ which was the flu.
at that time were addressed to him and narratives. No, then they took a beating. And then there are hundreds of reports
the Pope, hundreds of letters that are all (Ailton) Krenak himself, Viveiros de Castro, in these separate Jesuit letters, hundreds
collected in separate correspondence from this great anthropologist, philosopher and of reports from Father Manoel da Nóbrega,
the Jesuits in the 16th century. I read, I thinker, they say that original peoples are Father Anchieta and a bunch more Jesuits
read not all, but some considerable of very curious and open to others, unlike saying that everyone was dying in the
them, there are three or four giant volumes the process of the European civilizational surrounding villages. It was a race that killed
published in Italian and Portuguese, of vision which is “the other is someone I fear more than Covid, it decimated the original
which I have both editions. and that I need to dominate, control and peoples. And what did the evangelists say?
They are impressive accounts of the destroy”; the original peoples, no, they What were these sons of bitches talking
evangelization process, in which they are extremely curious, they want to taste, about? “You are being punished because
describe with extreme violence how they want to taste, they want to eat, they you did not accept Jesus; your shaman is a
the great enemy of evangelization were want to fuck, they want to lick, they want to demon, and my xapiri, my great Spirit, who
the shamans. That they achieve several have dinner, they want to have lunch, they is Jesus, is killing you all.” In the cosmogony
“advances”, but that the shamans’ want to ask and to this day it is like that, of the original peoples, there was a war,
resistance was an impressive feat against you will When you live with them, they start and Pierre Clasters (1934-1977) himself

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