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Amazonian mythology is presented as a complete, unified, complex universe where natural forms have spiritual essence and visible reality is only one layer of perception.
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Jiang argues that the Amazonian and Pygmy cases share the same religious idea: humans are part of nature and must help nature maintain balance and harmony.
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Jiang argues that the Amazonian and Pygmy cases share the same religious idea: humans are part of nature and must help nature maintain balance and harmony.
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"people and they're very complex and sophisticated mythology okay so these are these are called called people of the anaconda okay in the beginning..."
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"...living today in the forest of the parapania which is the amazon the entire natural world is saturated with meaning and cosmological significance every..."
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"a world of deified ancestors where rocks and rivers are alive plants and animals are human beings sap and blood the bodily fluids of..."
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"...the pygmies have different religious beliefs than the people of the Amazon what you will discover what you will notice is that essentially the..."
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"...these are the companies that spend the most on AI, including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle. As you can see, year by year,..."
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"...same, if you got the, the people who work at the Amazon fulfillment centers, or if you got the UPS drivers, if you got,..."
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"...his life. The third thing, of course, is I understand why Amazon, Google, and Apple are successful, okay? Apple has Steve Jobs. Google controls..."
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"...tribes throughout the world okay and he's looking at specifically the amazon people if you go to amazon you would have many different indigenous..."
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"...All right, let's go to Africa. So we were in the Amazon. Now let's go to Africa. And in Africa, there's some people called..."
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"...the past. 20 years. In the year 2008, if you bought Amazon, you would buy for $7. Now, it's like $300, okay? So, that..."
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"...still around today in many primitive societies, for example, in the Amazon. And then we transition to the mother goddess. So as we became..."
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"...still around today in many primitive societies, for example, in the Amazon. And then we transition to the mother goddess. So as we became..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on temples, pyramids, farming, ritual ecology, and the modern inability to build wonders: people once organized around heaven on earth; now the religion is capitalism.
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For most of human history, Jiang argues, humans were peaceful, egalitarian, and artistic because the forest, animals, ancestors, and spirit world were not scenery.
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