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evangelicals and indigenous people. Our of perpetuating very heavy domination. Lima Galeria, in Maranhão, during Sp-Arte,
relationship with the indigenous people And this occurred during the Bolsonaro in São Paulo.
was one of empathy, even considering government… In the same period that “ Brazilian Quimbanda, among many
all the strangeness. Political empathy, Damares distributed plastic fetuses in a other currents and resistance cults in Brazil,
empathy for the point of view of them campaign against abortion in her office has its genesis in the clash of Christian
being the great defenders of nature, of in Brasília, from the supposed Ministry violence under the sign of the god crucified
the forest, the owners of the land, the of Human Rights and Women’s Rights! over the people of the land today called
true first owners of this land. They don’t She herself has a daughter of Kamayurá Brazil and the people of Africa who crossed
consider themselves Brazilians, they indigenous origin adopted without the the Atlantic under iron and colonizer’s fire.
consider themselves Tikunas. Part of the permission of her biological parents in The cult of the deified ancestors of
testimonies we have, but we didn’t include Xingu. These questions are very difficult. indigenous warriors, enslaved people and
in the video because it wasn’t part of the We tried not to make the film purely a exiles of the Holy Office found fertile land in
theme, is about this issue of belonging. denunciation, but what we saw there is Brazil for the maintenance of their powers
They don’t consider themselves Brazilians, very harsh. And what we try to maintain in through syncretism and the Macaias, the
they consider themselves Tikunas. It’s a the film is what makes this difficult situation cure, the curse, revenge through spirituality
particularity because it also indicates possible: conversion. reached the diabolical nickname. The
that, like every relationship of belonging, Sabbath cult found its alliance with the
belonging needs to be reciprocal, and if *** spirits of the forest and ancestral voduns.
they don’t have Brazil, Brazil doesn’t have The church is the key to extractivism. She Brazilian Quimbanda, as a true left-hand
them either. This is the central issue there, opens the door of paradise to the entrance cult, assumed cabalistic, gnostic, anti-
the issue of territory. And the other group of hell, she promises divine paradise and demiurgical concepts that live up to its
are the evangelicals, with whom we have no she brings hell into paradise, which is that deific masks of association with the Devil
empathy. If we go back there, if they see this there, which is in a pure state, in a state of and also with the great lord of the paths,
film, they won’t identify with it. It is likely life! What we stupidly call the primitive state. the orixá Exu, from whom the powerful
that an evangelical or a Bolsonarist who It’s a total lack of control, a total mistake. A dead borrow their nickname. .
sees this film will have a problem with it. It’s situation of misunderstanding that borders Quimbanda is the cult of the poisoning
an indigestible film. It is already indigestible on madness. And that’s the point of our of the Colonel, the decapitation of the
for us, on the left, for those of us who work work: trying to point out this misconception Nazarene, of individual freedom, of the
with culture. A difficult film to watch. I’m and treat it as such. Anyway, this work empowerment of the disgraced, of honor to
not just talking about the animal sacrifice deals with things that everyone has been those who died in the fires of the inquisition,
scene, I’m talking about the pain that we all dealing with, but we tried to go to what the executioner’s axe, the gallows, the steel,
have in being complicit in this situation of we think is the central point there, which the bullet, the hunger , in torture and who,
eternal colonization. Decolonization began is the transformation of the shaman into having experienced human pain, deified
the day after colonization because it will a shepherd, the transformation of people themselves on the adversary path to guide
appear as a direct act of repentance for who live in the forest into a village and the their incarnated brothers. Laroyê Exu, Exu
colonization, which is an act of barbarism. process of evangelization of these people. is Mojubá. (TMM)
We think that this is really the gateway to “ The Magician is the beginning of the
*** extractivism, which is taking place illegally action in the spiritual journey of the tarot. All
So, how do we relate to this? In the same and rampant in the region, the last in the the tools that symbolize the four elements
way as everyone watching the video: we Amazon, that can still be defended. are at your disposal, including the table
have empathy, we have pain and we are that has one of its legs as support. The 22
disgusted by this missionary relationship. CULTURaL WaR / ReLIgION aND aRT [pageS 78 TO 81] arcana of the tarot have their correlation
There are several testimonials that didn’t with the tree of life, the magician would be
make it into this film because of the film’s THE RECREATION the 11th path, that of luminous intelligence,
size and functionality. A lot was left out, OF A COSMOGONY Keter-Hockmah.
but we have testimonies from missionaries The tarot has an unknown origin, the
in which they talk about this obsession. Thiago Martins de Melo develops political oldest myth relates its origin to the Egyptian
And it really is an obsession above all work in which he tirelessly denounces tradition, from the so-called Book of Thoth.
else, more than the desire to help or necropolitics and the erasure of the history In which God Thoth hid the wisdom of the
more than kindness in quotation marks. of images by colonization world in an object of vice, the game of cards.
These people have this obsession with bY paTRICIa ROUSSeaUx But tarot comes to us through its
colonizing, they take pleasure in getting to medieval French and Italian versions. The
know this so-called savage and civilizing, thiago MartinS dE MElo was born in 1981, wisdom of the arcana and the paths of
socializing, converting this person not only in São Luís do Maranhão, where he lives life turns this card game into a cathedral
into a Christian but also into a white person! and works. The artist has participated in that was guarded and transmitted by the
And we did work on this, on this conversion. several residencies in Guadalajara, Mexico, ancients like every hermetic tradition from
This is our place at work, it is a place for where he is currently involved in a project ear to ear until it reached us in the era of
third parties, for critical observation. We with Rigo Campuzano, a young Mexican indiscriminate dissemination of information
cannot show solidarity, either with one curator. and disinformation.
side or the other, with as much empathy Thiago’s production is characterized In Brazil, there are theories that the first
as possible, because otherwise we would by the viscerality of his painting and his deck of cards arrived hidden when the
not have the critical distance necessary research in the field of psychology and Jesuits arrived. Certainly, the magical
to address this issue, which is a problem. religions of resistance to colonizers, traditions of the Iberian peninsula and the
We are dealing with obsession there, and especially the Spanish and Portuguese. Mediterranean have found fertile ground
what comes with obsession: conversion… We publish below two texts referring to over the centuries in syncretism with
it is barbaric. It is colonization, a process works exhibited in Spain and at the stand of indigenous and African traditions in Brazil.”

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