"Is the man in prison for growing?"
"No, he killed a man at a tesguinada. It wasn't his fault."
"Why not?"
"He was drunk."
This I had read about. The Tarahumara believe that the body and mind are controlled by a group of souls of various sizes and capabilities. When a person drinks tesguino, the biggest soul, the one responsible for the proper functioning of the brain and large physical movements, leaves the body because it doesn't like the sour milky smell. This is why drunks say stupid things and have poor balance and also why a man who kills someone when drunk is not considered responsible for his actions. His main soul had left his body.
"Usually they don't report killings that happen at tesguinadas," said Randy. "If he killer goes to prison, that leaves two families that need supporting. So what they do instead is make the killer support the victim's family so he has to work twice as hard."
"How often do these killings happen?"
"It's pretty commonplace, unfortunately. The guy who did it usually feels terrible about it the next day".
Sobre los Tarahumara, que ademas son grandes corredores de larga distancia, ver esta nota de la Nat Geo.
1 comentarios:
Grossa nota. Que bien te hubiese venido esta cultura Krusty para limpiar tu prontuario de desmanes y agresiones al projimo sin sentido. Tus amigos no tendriamos nada que criticarte. Que seria de nuestras tipicas conversaciones sobre tu pasado turbio? Que seria de Max y sus acusaciones rutinarias e infinitas. Que suerte que no somos tarahumaras, porque ademas significaria que el 40% de la conversaciones que todods hemos tenido con vos en realidad no fueron con vos, ya que tu "verdadera alma" no estaba presente.
Interesante el concepto de Korima en la nota de Natgeo.
Me muero,corren maratones, paran a fumarse un cigarro, corren en chanclas y encima ganan.
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abrazo
O.
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