New House

After nine hours of boat trip, under a totally clear sky, you can see the lights of the lanterns of the community of Puerto Remanso. The nights next to the Caquetá River intensify the sound of jungle insects that accompany the water blow against the rafts waiting near the maloca. The mambe arrives at one of the houses of Miraña bora in the Colombian Amazon. The invitation to the maloca tread is represented in thought (tobacco) and word (coca). Under the earth a god of center goes so that in his space emerge the commissions to the women and the men. The celebration and exchange between them is done through offerings with food. Days before the men hunt and the women prepare cassava for the celebration. The blow on the dirt floor in the maloca carries the rhythm of the dances and songs in Miraña and Bora language. A row of men dances in front of a group of women, revolve around the maloca and respond to the chants encouraged by the maloqueros. At dawn the songs of Caguana begin so that the guests finish all the liquid that is left. After 18 hours of dancing and singing, everyone returns to their homes. The largest maloca in the whole community is already spiritually linked to the territory, the concentration of their ancestors in the moorings, the figures that remain there, in the forms of the fabric that protects them from the rain and connects them with God and the Doors from east to west arranged in the sun for the care of the community.