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| The main focus of this article is to outline some | | | | unknown ethnic groups in the world; their number in a |
| historical and esoteric subjects related to the area of | | | | group is about 20 to 400 aborigines. |
| the Amazon, where is the presence of many native | | | | Bolivia: Sinabo/Kapuibo (Nahua), Yanaigua, Yuqui... |
| tribes, some of them even unknown to us. The world | | | | Brazil: Apiaka, Apurina, Arua, Ava-Canoeiros, Guaja, |
| is more importantly aware of the situation of various | | | | Ingarune, Kanibo (Mayo), Kaniwa (Korubo), |
| native people, who live in isolation, and it is almost | | | | Karafawyana, Karitiana, Katawixi, Kayapo do Rio |
| unbelievable that animals have better protection than | | | | Liberdade, Kayapo-Pu'ro, Kayapo-Pituiaro, |
| groups of people living freely in nature, if their wish is to | | | | Kayapo-Kararao, Kulina, Maku (Nadeb), |
| stay forever in isolation. A desire to live this way is the | | | | Mamaindé, Hi-Marima, Mayoruna, Miqueleno |
| legitimate right - the basic right... The situation of these | | | | (Cujubi), Nereyana, Pakaa-Nova, Papavo group, then |
| people is, however, appalling even in spite of the UNO's | | | | Pariuaia, Piriutiti, Sateré, Tupi-Kawahib (Piripicura), |
| recommendations. | | | | Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau, Wayapi (Yawapi), Yakarawakta... |
| The Madidi National Park | | | | Columbia: Karabayo, Guaviare Macusa |
| One of the most attractive and arcane natural parks is | | | | Ecuador: Huaorani |
| the Madidi National Park, which was established on | | | | Guyana: Wapishana |
| September 21, 1995. It covers the area of almost | | | | French Guiana: Wayapi |
| 19,000 km2 and it is on the Bolivia-Peru border in Latin | | | | Peru: Morunahua, Parquenahua, Pisabo |
| America. There is not even a full list of the flora and | | | | Surinam: Akulio |
| fauna in the area, as this place has been explored only | | | | Venezuela: Yanomami |
| a little until now. | | | | Paraguay: Totobiegosode clan |
| The National Geographic classifies this area as "the | | | | Aramu Muru |
| reservation with the richest biodiversity in the world". | | | | Aramu Muru, a mysterious door found only recently |
| The population consists of various groups, of the | | | | (1996), can be photographed some 34 km from Puno, |
| uncontacted people, too. In our history, Indians were | | | | a city in Peru in 3825 m above the sea level near the |
| abused by the influx of white settlers, who made | | | | lake Titicaca. After discovering this mysterious door, a |
| slaves of them, and this is the dark side of the Latin | | | | wider public became more interested in an Indian |
| America's history, but in North America it was not | | | | legend that spoke of a "gate to the land of Gods". The |
| much too better. Many Indian tribes experienced their | | | | "stargate" near the lake Titicaca is a stone |
| worst times particularly in the period of the so-called | | | | construction seven meters high and seven meters |
| "rubber industry", when white migrants massacred | | | | wide. There is a legend about an Incan priest, Aramu |
| them often. | | | | Muru, who belonged to the "seven rays cult"; one day |
| During the age when South America was first | | | | he set off from Tiahuanaco to Cusco with a golden |
| explored, some historians followed various native tribes | | | | disc that represented the "Key of the Seven Rays |
| that had never come into contact with the white | | | | Gods". The disc had allegedly controlled openings into |
| culture. One of such tribes is the alleged Toromona | | | | subterranean tunnels. The priest disappeared on his |
| group of people. During the colonization, Spaniards did | | | | way and nobody has ever seen him since then. |
| not have much luck to settle down in the area of the | | | | Native people living nearby say that strange |
| Amazon, where their main goal was to find a secret | | | | phenomena can be seen sometimes near this door, |
| place called Patiti - an alleged hiding place of the Incas' | | | | for example, high men accompanied by shining "balls of |
| biggest treasures, which the Incas concealed from | | | | light", or "people" entering into this door and |
| Spaniards. There are also some historical records that | | | | disappearing there. For those who live here, it is clear |
| confirm the fact that the Incas sealed subterranean | | | | evidence that legends really contain messages of |
| tunnels in ritual ceremonies. | | | | gods. In addition, there are many historical records |
| Toromona Indians contacted the white civilization only | | | | about tunnels in South America; these reports |
| in battle. It is known that they supported the Incas and | | | | appeared immediately after Spaniards found that the |
| there are historical records about this tribe, albeit it has | | | | Incas concealed most of their gold and used the tunnel |
| never been found. One of their chieftains became | | | | system to hide it. Does not the "door" of Aramu Muru |
| famous in a battle against Spaniards and records say | | | | look like an entrance into the underground? |
| that his name was Tarano. | | | | More from history |
| Sometimes in the 20th century, Protestant missionaries | | | | There are theories about an ancient migration from |
| observed, during their flight above the Amazon area, | | | | Asia to America. Nobody denies that the ancient |
| an isolated group of Indians somewhere near the | | | | history of South America can yet even today reveal |
| Madre de Dios River and they came to a conclusion | | | | unknown secrets from the time of many years before |
| that it could be these Toromona people. However, | | | | Christ, and that more civilizations co-existed here. Albeit |
| later - after making a personal contact with them - | | | | scholars consider the Olmecs to be the oldest |
| they identified them as quite a different group | | | | civilization, other cultures like Pucara and Tiahuanaco |
| (Araona), the number of which is about one hundred | | | | (Tiwanaku) are often mentioned in historical relation to |
| and they live in vulnerable conditions; however, they | | | | the lake Titicaca, from the waters of which Manco |
| linguistically belong to the same group as the | | | | Capac and Mama Ocllo arose - as the legends say - |
| Toromona tribe. | | | | who founded the Inca Empire. There is an Island of the |
| Cordillera Apolobamba is probably the least explored | | | | Sun with very ancient temple in the middle of the lake. |
| area in the Andes. It is a line of hills - cordillera, the | | | | Before the Inca Empire, the Aymará culture lived |
| highest peak of which is Chaupi Orco at 6044 m | | | | here. It is the ethnic group living in part of the Andes, |
| above the sea level. Many people consider this | | | | especially in Peru and Bolivia, even today. The heritage |
| particular part of the Andes to be a place where El | | | | of this culture is also Pachamama (Mother of God), |
| Dorado or Patiti can be found. Apolobamba has a | | | | who has her shrines in Peru and Bolivia. The Incas |
| unique eco environment with unknown species of | | | | absorbed Pachamama as a "dragon goddess" of |
| fauna and flora. Father Miguel Cavello Balboa wrote | | | | fertility, but the best translation is "Mother Earth". The |
| about one city of gold and he described Patiti as a | | | | Aymará culture, which had prospered near the |
| place protected by warrior women; he also mentioned | | | | lake Titicaca already some 1500 years before Christ, |
| the Toromona tribe with notes that it did not have any | | | | left various archeological artifacts here. In the 15th |
| mercy in killing. | | | | century, the Incas conquered this civilization. |
| A route from La Paz (capitol of Bolivia) to Pelechuca | | | | The Incas |
| (a little city in the heart of Apolobamba) takes about 14 | | | | Most historians agree that the Incas had 13 emperors: |
| hours by bus and civilized people seldom visit such a | | | | 1. Manco Capac, 2. Sinchi Roca, 3. Lloque Yupanqui, 4. |
| wild region. This is certainly one of the reasons why | | | | Maita Capac, 5. Capac Yupanqui, 6. Inca Roca, 7. |
| this area is known so little. Apolobamba ends with the | | | | Yahuar Huacac, 8. Inca Viracocha, 9. |
| Amazon forest on its eastern side; many people died | | | | Pachacuti-Inca-Yupanqui, 10. Topa Inca Yupanqui, 11. |
| here, as they thought that a way to the legendary "lost | | | | Huayna Capac, 12. Huascar, 13. Atahuallpa. The Inca |
| city" starts somewhere here. Madre de Dios forest | | | | Empire arose in the year 1200 AD and ended in 1535 |
| starts here, too; if translated, it is the Mother (Madre) of | | | | AD. |
| (de) God (Dios). | | | | People in Peru, Bolivia and the rest of the Inca Empire |
| A well-known British traveler Percy Fawcett made | | | | were not all the "true Incas", but Indians of the |
| several expeditions to the Amazon including this region | | | | Quechua and Aymará origin. The Incas were the |
| (Apolobamba) and in 1914 he met one Indian tribe called | | | | elite governors of other race, who were convinced |
| Maxubis in the region of Mato Grosso (Brazil). These | | | | that they had come from a bearded messenger of |
| people were sun worshippers. They showed him | | | | gods, whom they worshipped as Viracocha. It is |
| some signs to prove that they had come from a much | | | | known that this is the reason why they welcomed |
| higher civilization. | | | | Spaniards with such a great respect; however, they |
| We can speak about two types of "alienated" Indian or | | | | made a mistake and their genocide followed soon. |
| native tribes - 1) the isolated and 2) the uncontacted | | | | After the Spanish colonization the Indians, who refused |
| ones. Whereabouts of the isolated are known, but | | | | to become Christians, were made slaves. The Inca |
| they refuse to come into contact with us. There may | | | | Empire was remarkable by making it possible to build |
| be some information about the uncontacted, but the | | | | the territorially biggest Empire in the pre-Columbian |
| contact has never been established. The word | | | | America and its political center was Cusco, a city in |
| "contact" is important to understand here, as it means | | | | nowadays Peru. The Empire did not last too long. |
| more than just one meeting with a member of the | | | | Spaniards destroyed it in the 16th century also |
| majority race. For example, among the uncontacted is | | | | because the Empire was undergoing a severe crisis in |
| the Toromona tribe, but also Huaorani or Tagaeri, | | | | the time when Atahualpa, who reigned in the North, |
| though the existence of the Toromona people requires | | | | and his brother Huascar, engaged in combats against |
| an independent confirmation. | | | | each other. Thus, the Spanish conquistador, Francisco |
| On January 18, 2007, FUNAI (Fundacao Nacional do | | | | Pizarro, entered into historical records as the |
| Indio), which is a Brazil's national institute for protection | | | | conqueror of the Inca Empire. |
| of Indians, confirmed the presence of 67 tribes as the | | | | The Incas, when they understood that they lost in the |
| uncontacted, while in the year 2005 FUNAI reported | | | | war, ran away into the mountains. Many of them fell to |
| the number of 40. | | | | slavery or were killed by diseases that Europeans had |
| Albeit the Norwegian biologists Lars Hafskjold, who | | | | brought here. |