(Chronicle)
Ivan Matvichuc
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he gossip of brazilian people make public the fact that the oxes party
of the Boi Bumbá in Paríntins (Amazonas) it is being a lot similar to the
Carnival of Rio de Janeiro, of merchandize tendency and that is losing your folkloric roots, that link it to the
cultural traditions of the indigenous people of the Amazonian.
Every year, in the last three days of June, avid tourists of new emotions
arrive to know our habits and the most sacred traditions better. Critics to the
part, the important is that the means always justify the ends and the final
result is always positive, if we consider the entrance of the blessed "
green " notes, exchange value propulsory of our incorrectness economy.
To speak of "Boi Bumbá's
Party", of the aphrodisiac Island of Paríntins is to speak also of that
warlike people, that collaborates and it doesn't measure efforts to turn the
party more and more beautiful. They are people involved in this arduous
handiwork, where the creativity is made present, in an earth-barn of
autodidactic plastic artists, where the gene of the art reigns since the
primordial times of the generations miscegenated of your formation. They still
sound in my longing ears the melodious touch of the drums and the sound song of
the tunes sung by the singers playing and counting beautiful histories of the
people of the Amazonian and my longing eyes and dazzled following the sensual
movements of the beautiful ones cunhã-porangas (single young girls) in the
shake of their continuous swingings, that numb the senses and they cause me a
deep pleasure sensation. I still
remember the swing movement of "Boi Bumbá's head", tradition from
Maranhão, that was welcomed and adopted with love in the heart of the Amazonas
people. And the memories travel in the time until if they stop in the homages
that the Parintins' people renders
your more famous sons.
It is important to do this homage in life so that the honored is knowing
himself how he is loved and admired
for his people Unhappily, for our grief, one of the largest collaborators of
"Boi Bumbá's Party", was never object of the deserved homages,
of your dear "Boi Garantido". We are speaking about an illustrious Parintins' person.
To speak of this man is the same thing to talk about his own birthplace,
of his beloved Amazonas, of the poetry of forests, the torrential rivers, that
compose the fluvial basin of the largest river of the planet
- THE AMAZONAS, the river-sea. It
is also to speak of his books, where the prose and the verse if they mix, to
tell us a thousand counted
histories in the profundities of the jungle, of the legends and of the folklore
of the riverine people, where he was a master. We are speaking about the poet
and writer folklorist ANTÔNIO PACÍFICO SAUNIER, that already left us, leaving
for the " top " walk, final
path of
all of us.
-
" Ah! Tonzinho, as I desired in knowing you personally, but the stepmother
distance impeded
my wish
- Longing of you, cousin TONZINHO
SAUNIER, longing!".
( Chronicle published in the Anthology " Energia Latente" (Latent Energy)
2002 of the Publisher Arnaldo Giraldo of São Paulo - Pages 113 and 114).
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