Juan Carlos Jintiach
Shuar people, Ecuador
Indigenous elders are seeing that something is going on. Some areas where there is low land water is getting inundated this never happen before. The sun usually shines for 4 -6 days, now it does not rain for almost a month and this is in the rain forest. We need some answers for that.
‘If the water disappears our Gods are gone’
For us our church is the waterfalls, the waterfalls keep our gods, in the forest, around the waterfalls if the water disappears our gods are gone. We become empty and don’t have the spiritual connection.
The river goes down, the River God disappears, and the fishes are gone. We are very symbolically connected with the land, forest and water.
This big huge garden is not just living animals and plants there are human beings, there are different languages, different customs, 400 groups and different cosmos beliefs.