""I CANNOT KNOW IF THE INFINITE JUNGLE STARTED IN ME" "THE PROCESS THAT LED MANY OTHERS TO TOTAL AND IRREMEDIABLE MADNESS." "IF THAT'S THE CASE, I CAN ONLY APOLOGISE AND ASK FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING," "SINCE THE UNFOLDING THAT I WITNESSED DURING THOSE ENCHANTED HOURS WAS SUCH" "THAT IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE IN A LANGUAGE" "THAT ALLOWS ANOTHER TO UNDERSTAND ITS BEAUTY AND SPLENDOR." "ALL I KNOW IS THAT WHEN I RETURNED, I HAD BECOME ANOTHER MAN."" "THEODORE OF MARTIUS, AMAZON, 1909" "Yukuna." "Tukano." "Wanano." " Kobeuá?" " Go away." "Go away!" "You are Karamate, who moves worlds?" "What do you want?" "I am Manduca, son of Rúibukuri, of the Komeilemong longhouse." " I am the river Bara." " I know the Baras." "You surrendered to the white man without a fight." "What do you want?" "This is Theodor von Martius," "My friend and travel companion." "He is very sick." "All the neighboring shamans tried to cure him." "No one could." "They said you were the only one who can help us." "I'm not like you." "I do not help the whites." "He is a wise man, who came to learn." "He'll die if you do not help!" "Where did you get this?" "Drop it!" "Where did you get this?" "What?" "The collar!" "It was a gift from a Cohiuano shaman." "Liar!" "The Cohiuanos do not exist!" "There are some, yes." "I've been with them a few years ago." "Lies!" "Ayúmpari." "I'm not lying." "Some of them were by the river Yari." "They are few, but still exist." "The Cohiuanos no longer exist." "You killed everyone." "I will not help you." "It's okay, Manduca." "It's all right." "It's all right." "Only yakruna can save you." "If the Cohiuanos still exist, they will have it." "Otherwise, you will die." "The yakruna can cure me?" "My people still exist?" "The jungle is fragile, and if you attack, she retaliates." "Only we travel, respecting her." "we should not eat meat or fish until the rain again and ask permission from the owners of the animals." "We can not cut any tree in the bud." "If we find a woman, do not have sex until the moon changes." "Accepted?" "Theo, you're in no condition to travel." "I can not die here." "Accepted?" "You better be telling the truth." "This remedy only distracts the disease." "When you return, you will come back stronger." "It is true." "I've been with them." "EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT" "Tukano." "Andoke." "Karihona." "Muinane." "Can you show me?" "40 years ago, this man, Theodor von Martius," "He was here and wrote about the plant I seek." "I want to know if what he wrote is true." "I dedicate my life to plants." "Dedicate your life to plants?" "It's the most sensible thing I ever heard a white say." "My name is Evan." "My name was Karamakate." "I went down the river from the longhouse of Wanano people." "I'm looking for a plant." "The yakruna." "What plant is this?" "I know very little about it." "I do not know if it exists." "I want to learn about it." "Von Martius described it as a sacred plant to cure diseases, growing on the rubber and increasing its level of purity." "That's why you want it?" "This is Mambe?" "You like our coca?" "Now you want yakruna too?" "I can give you a lot of money if you help me." "It's a lot of money." "Ants like money." "I Do not." "The taste is bad." "I never dreamed." "Neither asleep nor awake." "Not even the caapi took effect on me." "By shamans in the villages of Baras, the Tukanos and Sirian" "I was told that there was only yakruna" "Can you help me?" "I once dreamed of a white spirit." "He was sick and only if he learned to dream could he be saved, but he could not." "Your dreams are worth a lot of money for you?" "You know where to find yakruna?" "You have more Mambe?" "I have a little coca." "Something wrong?" "I forgot Mambe existed." "Now I do not know how to do it." "What do you know about yakruna?" "Where do you have it?" "You are not one." "You're two men." "I want to see yakruna." "I will go with you." "You know the way?" "I do not remember." "You'll take me." "You did all this?" "What does it mean?" "I do not know." "I do not remember." "These stones were talking to me." "They answered my questions." "The line broke, and the memories are gone." "Stones, trees, animals, all were silent." "Now there is only the drawings on the rocks." "Now I am empty." "I am Chullachaqui." "This looks like a pattern I saw in the yakruna." "These are mountains." "A group of mountains." "It is the "workshop of the Gods"." "It is there, where there is a yakruna." "How did I forget the gifts of the Gods?" "I forgot how to do Mambe." "What became?" "We have too much weight." "We need to get rid of the boxes." "No, they are mine." "I need them." "They will sink us." "Throw them out." "They are useful." "You can look if you want." "It's not him." "It's Chullachaqui it." "What?" "It is the Chullachaqui, It looks like it." "It's a photo." "It happened to us." "We turned into Chullachaquis." "You met him?" "You already know what it is?" "He's old like me?" "No, he died in this jungle." "He never turned away." "As he gave you this?" "Manduca, his traveling companion," "He sent the diaries to Germany." "They were published there." "Manduca, do we have something to exchange for food?" "A little." "Amazing." "Come." "Are you alright?" "It is better?" "Did you find one who moves the world?" "This is Karamakate." "He agreed to help." "I have to keep to the prohibitions." "You need strength to travel." "You can eat." "I can?" "After Cuduyarí, how do I get to Yari?" "Follow Uraricoera star to Rio Igara." "What star is that?" "That which is visible at sunset there." "From there?" "What is it?" "A compass." "She always points" "To the star of Auakaruna." "The needle is attracted by the magnetic field of the Earth." "Why?" "She always point where the Earth's energy indicates." " Theo, sing your song!" " No!" "Not again!" "Manduca,I willnotsingalone." "Singwithme !" "Come." "Who are you?" "How can you live alone in a jungle like this?" "Manduca, you have the compass?" "You didn't leave it in the longhouse?" "One of you took my compass?" "Give it back." "Give it back, you thieves!" "Which of you is it?" "Give it back." "Leave him, Theo." "I cannot leave a compass here, Manduca." "Tuschaua, tell them to give back." "Please Tuschaua, I need it." "I will not exchange it." "Please return it." "Please Tuschaua, I need it." "Come on." "I said, I have my compass here." "What is it?" "You're like the other whites." "Their guidance system is based on the wind and stars." "If you learn to use a compass, this knowledge will be lost." "You cannot forbid them to learn." "Knowledge is for all." "But you do not understand, because you are white." "All right?" "Leave it." "They are just things." "(They're) Not." "Why do whites love material things so much?" "They are not just things." "They are my only link to my people in Germany, my city, my wife, my children." "These boxes contain all the knowledge gathered in four years of travel." "I have to take them, but ... nobody will believe me." "Stop that, you must leave everything." "You are crazy." "I know." "The rubber barons have marked you?" "Yes, but now I'm a free man." "It was here that the anaconda descended from the Milky Way bringing our ancestors the Karipulakena?" "Damn rubber!" "What is he saying?" "He is asking you to kill him." "You brought a gun?" " Manduca, what is it?" " Manduca, do not!" "Manduca, you cannot do that." "If I do not, they will torture him to death." "Do not do it, Manduca." "Do not do it!" " Manduca, no." " No one deserves this hell." "Relax, Manduca, relax." "Manduca, no!" "Karamakate." "Come on." "I will not." "Because?" "You cannot trust whites." "I also do not have trust in you." "So what are we doing?" "This is your knowledge?" "Firearms?" "His science only leads to this: "Violence"." "Death." "It's not true." "What else are you stealing?" "Coca?" "Quinoa?" "Rubber?" "So now you want to steal yakruna?" "What else will you turn into death?" "Do not talk to him like that." "He did more for our people than you." "Is that you?" "Look at your white man's clothes!" "How could you let that change their culture?" "You think like them." "I don't believe anything." "Which side are you on?" "It is a mestizo." "I never met anyone more loyal than Manduca." "He never failed to defend his people." "Is that you?" "What did you do?" "Isolated like crazy, far away from the world." "I'm not stealing anything." "Look here!" "This is my knowledge." "You also try to understand the world around you." "You also tell stories." "I have to take them to my wife, to my people." "This is not death, it is life." "This is my music." "What is this?" "A drawing I did." "Where did you see that?" "A dream." "A dream caapi?" "No." "They never let me drink caapi." "I saw it in a dream." "I'm not a mestizo." "If these rubber barons are men, I'm a snake." "Isthatafire?" "No." "TheyarePeruvians." "Come." "We have to talk to the caapi maestro." "Only he can explain." "What you mean?" "I dreamed of your design." "Impossible." "Nothing is impossible for the maestro." "It is ready to drink?" "I can?" "Drink without fear." "Already it cleans the inside." "You can drink again." "Baby." "You need to relax." "Watoíma." "I do not want to die." "Why does the caapi maestro not talk to me?" "I do not know." "It never happened before." "What did you see?" "The maestro took me to see an ounce." "He told me that Watoíma turned good when he touched the ground." "Received a good mission." "What mission?" "Kill you." "Is my behaviour good?" "No, it's something else." "If the maestro caapi does not talk to me, the yakruna can still help me?" "You do not know how to listen." "I'll have to teach you." "The jaguar said something about me?" "She asked me to protect you." "Lastnight,at last,Ihadtheopportunity tounderstandthevisionIhad inGermany, lyingbesideher,manyyearsago." "Finally I could understand why I imagined an ounce." "But no matter how hard I tried, however much I wanted to," "I was still totally immune to the effect of caapi." "I feel I failed, my love." "I will be forced to accept that my colleagues were right when they criticized my trip." "I'm afraid I walked away from you only to die thousands of kilometers from our house." "I can only hope that this disease is caused by the great longing by not having you by my side." "And I beg you to forgive me for expressing dark feelings." "But also I hope, my love   You find in my honesty another proof of my affection ..." "What is it?" "You understand me?" "No, but it looks like you're about to cry." "He is writing to his wife." "I like to express my affection for her." "For a woman?" "Before or after crying?" "You do not understand." "When you return, you will express your affection for me too?" "What are you doing?" "It must be saved." "But it's me." "No, not you." "It's an image." "As Chullachaqui?" "A what?" "A Chullachaqui." "We all have a Chullachaqui, it seems to us, but it's empty, hollow." "This is a memory, the time has passed." "A Chullachaqui has no memory." "He just wanders around the world, empty, like a ghost, lost in a time without time." "Will you show my Chullachaqui his people?" "Only if you let me." "The necklace is part of Cohiuanos." "It cannot be given." "Okay." "Keep the paddle closer to the boat." "Listen." "The river tells you when paddling." "Like this?" "Why did you not return to your people?" "The Colombians ended up with everything." "Did you ever go back and see?" "I was a child." "How did you survive?" "Another rubber plantation?" "No more." "It says here it's a mission." "Let's stop and get supplies." "No." "Let's go." "I know this place." "How are we for supplies?" "Not very well." "We will stop then." "Hi, little brother." "What is your name?" "Manhekanalienípe." "This is not your name!" "We can not speak the language." "My name is Jeremiah." "Where are the priests?" "♪ Adeste Fideles ♪" "Go!" "Go!" "We do not have rubber!" "We do not want rubber." "What do you want?" "My name is Theodor von Martius." "I Am an ethnographer at the University of Tubingen and the Museum of Stuttgart, Germany." "These are Manduca and Karamakate, my traveling companions." "What they want?" "We are on an expedition and we need food to continue our trip." "Fruits, cassava, whatever." "I do not care!" "Go away." "We can negotiate, I have money." "I can pay." "Go away!" "Let's go." "What he said?" "demon languages ​​are not allowed here." ""If you judge me faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay in it. "" "Calm." "We can not move forward without food." "You are Capuchin, right?" "Please help us." "We will respect your rules." "Only talk Spanish." "We are men of science." "As St. Thomas Aquinas." ""Do not forget to show hospitality, therefore "receives my angels ..." ""Received" my angels ... Many unknowingly. "" "I doubt that you are angels, but the house of God is not mine to refuse them hospitality." "Welcome to St. Anthony of Padua Mission in Vaupés." "It is forbidden to eat fish before the rain comes." "How long are you here?" "I came after the massacre of Peruvians." "No longer will make 10 years." "He was alone all this time?" "Do not." "Brother Marcellin and other brothers of the order" "They were looking for new disciples two years ago and never returned." "Not seen them down the river?" "You only robs men?" "Our mission is sacred to rescue the orphans of the rubber war, to save their souls and keep them away from cannibalism and ignorance." "IN RECOGNITION OF THE COURAGE OF COLOMBIAN RUBBER," "PIONEERS WHO RISK THEIR LIVES AND PROPERTY TO BRING TO EARTH THE CIVILIZATION OF CANNIBALS AND SAVAGES" "SHOWING THEM THE WAY OF GOD AND HIS HOLY CHURCH." "RAFAEL REYES" " PRES." "COLOMBIA AUGUST 1907" "Give me a pot." "I know what life is like here." "The whites are crazy." "Come." "Come on, do not be afraid." "Look." "This is Chiricaspi." "Our ancestors the Karipulakena gained it from the gods." "We received the semen of the Sun when Yeba, his daughter," "He scratched his penis and planted the semen in the dust." "We have to do the same thing with the plant before boiling it." "Help me." "This is the best defense we have against the disease." "It will help you to survive." "The priests also took me when they killed my people." "They did not surrender." "They fought." "That's what you need to do." "Do not believe this madness eating the bodies of their gods." "They give you food, but do not respect the prohibitions." "One day food from the forest will end." "You are still small, so the forest will forgive." "The caapi maestro will guide you." "Every plant, every tree, every flower is full of wisdom." "Never forget who they are and where they came from." "Do not let your music go away." "Do not touch me!" "You brought the devil to the community!" "You have perverted the innocent!" "We have to go." "We have to take them." "We can not." "They will kill them." "We can not feed them." "Run." "Run." "Where?" "I do not know." "You are the guide." "You could help me." "You will not find anything there." "Interested in rubber?" "I've never seen such." "Rubber means death." "Why are you looking for?" "You're two men." "What do you mean?" "Why do you insist on coming with me if you will not help me?" "I remembered." "You recalled what?" "Where can we find yakruna?" "I remembered one thing, but do not know what it means." "Maybe I'm not Chullachaqui." "Where are we going?" "On the right." "We will find what you are looking for." "We have to go back!" "We can not go back." "They are already here." "I've been here before." "The Messiah will not receive visitors." "We do not want to see him." "we just want to contine our path." "It's not possible." "Eden, our community, depends on your secret." "We will not tell anyone." "Show me what you have there." "It's a gift?" "You are the Three Wise Men?" "But only see two of you, Balthazar and Melchior." "Where is Caspar?" "He has lost his way." "He was invited to suicide, because his betrayal" "It caused the disease that afflicts our community." "Today I do not do miracles!" "So, you are the Magi?" "we are scientists looking for sacred plants." "sacred plants?" "The only sacred thing in this kills me!" "Cure-na." "They need to take her to a hospital." "She has Leishmaniasis." "They will not be able to cure it." "The Messiah is in a bad mood today." "But his wife is ill." "I also would like to help." "I hope it works." "I would not want you to be invited to suicide." "This is madness." "Does he not care?" "Yes." "Something went wrong." "Now they are ... in the worst of both worlds." "Thank the Lord." "Take and drink." "This is the cup of my blood, the new and eternal covenant." "Cala mouth!" "Oh, Holy Magi," "Who have come from the east" "I now find on your way to Bethlehem." "Gives blessing to our drink!" "He healed my wife, and now he will heal us!" "Brothers celebrate this day of joy!" "Take it!" "I can not drink from the same glass as the son of God." "The son of God." "The son of God!" "I am the Messiah, the Redeemer of Indians!" "The son of God, Agnus Dei!" "Me coma!" "Me coma!" "Me coma!" "Everyone, eat me!" "Eat!" "Eat, it is the body of God!" "It has too much weight." "What are you doing?" "Stop bothering me!" "What is your problem with these boxes?" "Your things will only lead you to madness and death." "What do you mean?" "You poisoned them!" "I have not poisoned them." "I Just gave them something to think better." "They are Makus." "Not born of anaconda." "They are less than humans." "You look like a rubber baron." "You're just like them." "You're lying to me." "You remember everything." "Do not go." "I still feel like a Chullachaqui." "But I'm starting to remember." "My mission was to inform my people, but the rubber barons and Colombians came." "And I was alone." "I must remember." "I need to keep the music of Cohiuanos." "You will show me the way?" "I do not know him." "You have to find out." "Move your luggage out." "Ready." "Satisfied?" "Show me that box." "I will not let you throw it away." "Show me." "What is it?" "This music soothes me." "It takes me to my father's house in Boston, to my ancestors." "To become warriors, the Cohiuanos must abandon all and go alone to the jungle, guided only by their dreams." "In this journey, he has to find out, in solitude and silence, who he really is." "He must become a wanderer in a dream." "Many are lost, and some never return." "But those who return..." "They are ready to face what is to come." "Where are we?" "Where are the songs that mothers sang to babies?" "Where are the stories of elders, the whispers of love, the chronicles of battles?" "Where do you go?" "You dreamed?" "Tell me what you dreamed?" "I did not dream anything." "You're lying." "You saw the eyes of Oz." "I'm saying nothing!" "You're afraid, but you have to listen." "Dreaming does not scare me." "I'm afraid to die in this hell." "You're driving me crazy with your dreams and shit bans." "Stop it." "You can not fish without permission!" "Permission from whom?" "You?" "The fish owner?" "Respecting your shit bans keeps me sick!" "Calm, Theo, you're delusional!" "Let me go!" "You want to kill me too?" "Let go of the spear." "The river is full of fish!" "I will not finish them!" "How can you help?" "Have you forgotten what they did to you?" "It was not him." "He repaid my debt in the plantation." "And you become his slave." "I'm no slave no." "I need him." "He can teach white." "How can he learn if he does not respect the jungle?" "He's scared, but he can learn." "He is a hero to his people." "They all admire and listen." "If whites do not learn, it will be our end." "The end of everything." "Kariauatinga, are you okay?" "The whites are awesome!" "They eat everything they see until they explode!" "You have to learn to control." "It's eating everything!" "How is he?" "Best." "Give semen from the Sun to him." "You have to help him." "No more heartache." "His body is dirty again." "It would be like giving poison to him." "We have to come to my people soon and talk to yakruna and ask it to forgive." "We are very close." "Tomorrow you will feel better." "With the." "It's here." "To the left." "Stop!" "Colombian?" "Do not move!" "You are Colombians?" "Do not know." "Get out of here!" "Sirgú arrived." "Drink some yakruna." "It's a toast to the end of the world!" "How can you allow this?" "How can you?" "The yakruna should not be cultivated." "I misunderstood the signs." "They were clear." "You are good!" "You are the snake!" "Calm." "Give me back." "You do not deserve this!" "You bring hell and death to the earth!" "Colombians are coming!" "Colombians are coming!" "Here is yakruna!" "Greater knowledge than that of my people!" "I will not let you take it." "Never!" "Colombians are coming!" "Karamakate!" "What story is counting?" "How God created the world." "The way is this song." "Listen." "Its beautiful, but it's just a story." "It's not a story." "It is a dream." "You should follow him." "I am a scientist, real facts, palpable." "I can not be guided by dreams that I have." "But you follow." "How many banks are there in this river?" "Two." "As you know?" "It has one and another." "One plus one equals two." "How do you know that?" "Because it's like this!" "One plus one equals two." "You are wrong." "This river has three, five, thousand margins." "Children understand." "Not you." "The river is the son of anaconda." "We learned in our dreams, but it's true, more real than what you call "real"." "What do you see?" "The world is so huge." "But you choose to see it." "The world speaks." "I just know listen." "Listen to the music of their ancestors." "It is the way you seek." "truth hear." "Not only with your ears." "Give me a little?" "I will not give you anything to decide to hear." "Give me a bit of caapi?" "Caapi will not help if you do not want to believe yourself." "Can you help me." "I can only do this." "Where?" "How do you know?" "I know." "Think." "It is the workshop of the Gods?" "It was necessary to come here." "Look!" "Its ready." "What are you doing?" "Not damaged." "We need to save it." "Do not." "We need to turn into caapi." "It is the last leg of yakruna in the world." "You should join him." "How do you know that?" "I destroyed everyone else." "It is our last hope." "It is my gift to you." "I did not come here for that." "You came, yes." "I'm saying no." "There is a war out there." "My people need pure rubber to win it." "I need to take it with me." "You lied to me again?" "Want to make weapons and turn it into death?" "Give me." "Kill me!" "I do not care." "It is my duty to die, but yakruna dies with me." "You are also Chullachaqui, and will be forever." "Throw me your shirt." "Let me see your back." "This is medora caapi, the most powerful of all." "It existed before creation, before the snake descended." "It will take you to see her." "It is huge, frightening, but you should not be afraid." "You have to let her embrace you." "Her embrace will take you to ancient sites, where life does not exist, not even your embryo." "Baby." "I tried to kill you." "I do not deserve this." "I also kill you." "Before, in no time time yesterday, 40 years ago, maybe 100." "Or is there a million years." "But you came back." "It was not for me to teach my people." "I was supposed to teach you." "Give them more than they asked for." "Take a song to them." "Tell them everything you see, everything you feel." "Come back as a man of integrity." "You are Cohiuano." "Karamakate!" "MOVIE INSPIRED BY THE TRAVEL DIARIES OF:" "THE DIARIES ARE THE ONLY KNOWN REPORTS OF VARIOUS AMAZONIAN CULTURES." "DEDICATED TO PEOPLE WHOSE SONG MAY NEVER BE KNOWN." "Pirandello legend"