Before, there was no world. Darkness covered all. While there was nothing, a woman came to be by herself.
She appeared sustained on her white quartz bench. Her name was Yebá Buró, the “Grandmother of the World. ” As she wondered on her white quartz bench, something began to arise, seemingly a sphere, and on top of it, a sort of peak appeared.
It happened by her thought. There was yet no light. The sphere was the world.
She named the sphere <i>Umuko Wi,</i> “Hut of the Universe. ” She then thought of creating another being. Out of smoke itself, a mysterious bodiless being came to be.
He was the “God of the Earth. ” From where he'd appeared, he raised his ceremonial staff and sent it all the way up to the summit of the World's Peak. It was his very strength that went up.
And this adornment shone on with various colors, it was the Sun that had just been created. The God of the Earth then soared to its surface to form humankind. He arose on the great “Milk Lake”.
As he went up, over this great lake came down The Third Thunder, shaped like a giant boa constrictor. The snake's head looked like a canoe's deck. It was the “Transformation Canoe”, the snake canoe.
WILD ARROW THE SERPENT AND THE CANOE An extra-terrestrial snake canoe came to Earth. For the peoples of Rio Negro, narrators of this memory about the origin of life, the snake canoe came through the waters, sailing rivers and seas, manned by fish people, led by the God of the Earth. The snake canoe came from somewhere unknown to a place that didn't even exist.
It was a long journey inside this canoe, which was shaped like a snake to sail. The fish people crew spent centuries living inside this snake canoe as if in a world apart. One day, they awoke to a huge ice wall, which to be crossed required magical knowledge, a magic staff, magic chants.
It was the Grandmother of the World, Yebá Buró, who taught these things to the God of the Earth. The God of the Earth touched the wall with his staff, and it broke down. He needed to use all of his knowledge to break through the wall.
When the ice wall crumbled, blue skies and seas appeared. The sailing went on to the world we inhabit today. Crossing the ice wall was the transformation.
After a long time aboard the snake canoe, fish people landed and transformed into the peoples and clans that inhabit the Earth. A cosmic serpent brought life to Earth. It was a transport of information, instructions for the crossing itself and the transformations to come along the way.
Ones such as fish people turning into human people, or fish people liking to be fish people. All of this takes a long time to happen. A cosmic serpent brought life to Earth.
The life we share. Perhaps it is not possible to answer the questions: "Who are we? ", "Where do we come from?
" But we can begin with another question: "What are we? " <i>The human being is a moving galaxy of cellular systems. </i> The human body is made up of 37,2 trillion cells.
Each cell has DNA. DNA is a double helix of proteins, strands that look like two serpents entwined. DNA is two meters long coiling around itself.
If we gathered the entire DNA of a human body, it would add up to more than 25 roundtrips between Saturn and the Sun. This torsion around itself is a result of its interaction with the water inside each cell. DNA avoids the water's humidity.
Regard the shape. Know its content. Each serpent or strand is a sequence of organic compounds that make up a four-letter text.
One of these strands is the text, the other is the key to the text in the exact opposite sense. This text writes down how each life form is. The bacteria, fish, <i>Tyrannosaurus</i>, spotted jaguar, guava tree, cat, ant, insect, rose, alligator, capybara, dog.
Each being's DNA is made of the same letters but in different texts. DNA carries genetic ancestry information to its descendants. Countless luminescent double serpents are within each living being.
These serpents are luminescent. They emit light that resembles an ultra-weak laser, a hologram. They light up.
DNA is an emission source of biophotons, illuminated particles produced by life. Through biophotons, cells communicate within the same organism or between different ones. Light is one of the largest energies that move the world.
Biophotons are the light of cells. It was a rather barren ocean for life where the snake canoe wound up. Its arrival transformed what was not yet alive into the biosphere, the organism we call Gaia or planet Earth.
It does not matter if the serpent came from the sky or if it came to be "by chance" through a gathering of proteins in a Milk Lake. From the cosmos or another dimension, the master serpent of transformations came to Earth, and here she is. The narrative of her arrival is in many founding myths of several different cultures throughout the world.
The Huni Kuin people tell that Yube Aibu, "The Boa Constrictor Woman", lived deep down the waters of the Igarapé river. And through her, Dua Busê became the plants that make Ayahuasca. Yube, the boa constrictor, taught the Huni Kuin to weave, draw, and heal.
Quetzacoatl, amongst the Nahuas, is the Feathered Serpent present in creation, a deity called Gucumatz by the Mayan people. Ix Chel, Mayan goddess associated with the moon and waters, is a woman at times young, at others old, with a serpent on her head. Baholinkonga, the giant feathered serpent, keeper of the waters, is in the origin of the Hopi people.
For the Shipibo, Ronin is the cosmic serpent, keeper of the universe, associated with the river waters. In Quechua, Shamamama is the forest-ruling anaconda. Yakumama is the mother-of-waters serpent.
Huairamama is a snake that blows the winds and comes from outer space. The Rainbow Serpent, for the Aboriginal peoples of Australia, is associated with the waters and the quartz, which refracts light into colors. In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the serpent is the bearer of the apple that turns Adam and Eve into the original couple of life on Earth.
The Egyptians consecrate the dead in their tombs to the snakes. Snake-like deities were amply recognized by the Nile River. Ouroborus, the Greek term which in fact comes from Egypt, is a snake that eats its own tail in an eternal cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
In Greek mythology, Typhon, a giant and stormy serpent, is the son of the goddess Gaia. One of the fundamental Taoist texts tells of Kun, an extensive fish that turns into Peng, a mythical bird. In India, Shesha, the king serpent of all waters, is the force that creates life, envelops it, and continues when it is no more.
In Benin, it is on a bronze ring all around the Earth. It is also Dan, in the kingdom of Daomé and Oxumaré, the Orisha of the continuous movement. The serpent is in bracelets, weavings, ceramics, rock paintings, and diadems of various cultures on Earth.
Countless double serpents are within each living being, immersed into the liquid environment of each cell. The water in each cell has the same composition as seawater. Two luminescent serpents dance in a portion of seawater and travel from the beginning of time throughout our bodies.
Life is transformation. The future is ancestral.
