Really nice. The type of peaceful news we can all use about now. It made me think of a Brazilian Amazon indigenous tribe that was found in 2011 not to have a word or concept for the passage of time as we know it, except for daily sun position.
From Google search AI Overview:
The Amondawa tribe of the Amazon do not have an abstract concept of time, according to a 2011 study published in Language and Cognition. Their language lacks the linguistic structures that connect time and space, such as the idea of "working through the night". The Amondawa do recognize events that occur in time, but time does not exist as a separate concept for them.
Instead, the Amondawa use the sun's position in the sky and activities that happen at different times of day to mark time. They don't have words for months or years, so they divide longer periods into parts of the dry and rainy seasons. When asked to translate the Portuguese word tempo, which means "time", Amondawa speakers use the word kuara, which means "sun". They also don't celebrate birthdays, but instead people go through named life stages and receive a new name based on their gender and clan with each transition.
According to the study's author, this is the first time scientists have been able to prove that time isn't a universal human concept that's deeply ingrained.
Thanks, Michael. Fascinating. The main point of the poem is that time is circular more than linear, and the Amondowa seem to perceive that. Or perhaps I should say, they are embedded in it and repeat it.
It seems the mental structures the "West" has built over thousands of years are disintegrating around us, particularly the notion of time as linear progression, constantly advancing. It's the basis for technology and capitalism, but it's finally become clear we are advancing to ruin, ecologically, socially, spiritually.
From the standpoint of life, time is round, else no regeneration.
Nice. Echoes of Bette Midler's last verse of "The Rose":
Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snows
Lies the seed that with the sun's love
In the spring becomes the rose
Beautifully time!
Really nice. The type of peaceful news we can all use about now. It made me think of a Brazilian Amazon indigenous tribe that was found in 2011 not to have a word or concept for the passage of time as we know it, except for daily sun position.
From Google search AI Overview:
The Amondawa tribe of the Amazon do not have an abstract concept of time, according to a 2011 study published in Language and Cognition. Their language lacks the linguistic structures that connect time and space, such as the idea of "working through the night". The Amondawa do recognize events that occur in time, but time does not exist as a separate concept for them.
Instead, the Amondawa use the sun's position in the sky and activities that happen at different times of day to mark time. They don't have words for months or years, so they divide longer periods into parts of the dry and rainy seasons. When asked to translate the Portuguese word tempo, which means "time", Amondawa speakers use the word kuara, which means "sun". They also don't celebrate birthdays, but instead people go through named life stages and receive a new name based on their gender and clan with each transition.
According to the study's author, this is the first time scientists have been able to prove that time isn't a universal human concept that's deeply ingrained.
Thanks, Michael. Fascinating. The main point of the poem is that time is circular more than linear, and the Amondowa seem to perceive that. Or perhaps I should say, they are embedded in it and repeat it.
It seems the mental structures the "West" has built over thousands of years are disintegrating around us, particularly the notion of time as linear progression, constantly advancing. It's the basis for technology and capitalism, but it's finally become clear we are advancing to ruin, ecologically, socially, spiritually.
From the standpoint of life, time is round, else no regeneration.
It's also a fun word to play with!
You have a poets soul brother.🫶🌏🙏🌻
Thanks. Just trying like the rest of us.