Mitologia parakanã: o encontro com a morte nas narrativas orais dos índios parakanã do sudeste do Pará – Brasil

Abstract

This article aims to demonstrate how this people uses mythology to rework comprehended and contemporary events from their reference, considering the study and analysis of interviews and knowledge about the mythology of Parakanã Southeast of Pará For this, we use the concepts Silva (1995) points out that facts about the registration of indigenous myths of America , the analytical psychology of Jung (1977) studying the myths in the construction of universal archetypes, and studies in Anthropology and Ethnology (SILVA, 2009; ALMEIDA-SILVA, EMIDIO-SILVA, 2005; FAUSTO, 2001; SANTOS, 1994; SANTOS, 1982; MAGALHÃES, 1985; ARNAUD, 1983; EMIDIO-SILVA, 1998; MILLER, 2001; GOSSO & OTTA, 2003; GOSSO, 1998) that may corroborate the discussion. The methodological procedure is guided by direct interviews, based on a prior knowledge of mythology Parakanã, checking how the facts are restated to be reconstructed orally, alternating events of the distant past. Preliminarily, it was concluded that collaborate in understanding these myths and the reworking permeated by myths reaffirms Parakanã identity. The importance of this study for literary studies is the record of this process that allows observing the construction of group identity and the affirmation of its otherness.