The Jungle breathes like a living being. An ancient and primal land whose secrets coil during night-time and flow through it's arteries. It's considered by all like a magnificent mother, giver of life; the origin and the cradle of all the living and sentient beings that walk, crawl, fly, swim, bloom, and shine on this beautiful soil.
The jungle has been known with a countless number of names throughout history, but only one of them has remained untouched, perhaps because it's the oldest one of all: Amazonia.
Amazonia's origin is well known across the whole jungle, however, no living creature is ancient enough to confirm it. According to this tale that has been told from generation to generation, eons ago, the Sun fell in love with the Moon and was reciprocated by it. However, they realized in a short time that, when approaching, one could destroy the other: the Sun could melt the Moon and the Moon could extinguish the Sun.
Both perceived that their love was impossible, because when approaching each other, the Earth would be totally destroyed. If the burning love of the Sun melted the Moon, the waters of the Moon would flood the Earth. On the other hand, if the blue light of the Moon extinguished the Sun, the Earth would sink deep in an eternal darkness.
Knowing this, they had no option but to remain separated. The Moon, in disagreement with the separation, cried days and nights in a row. It's abundant tears spilled on the Earth until arriving at the sea; but when they got there, they were rejected for being freshwater, contrary to the waters of the sea being saltwater. As a result, those waters, having nowhere to go, started to flow towards the high greenlands of the Earth, condemned to dry up there. With the passing of the ages, the tears of the Moon streamed across this greenlands and gave form to numerous rivers that finally transformed this place into the majestic and beautiful Amazon Jungle.
This, are the roots of Amazonia...
This is the common legend that is taught to all creatures of the jungle, humans and animals alike. There's a large number of human tribes that reside in Amazonia, such as the Tupí-Guaraní, the Yanomani, the Tíkuna, the Terena, the Quechuas, the Marajoara, among many other known and uncontacted tribes; But also exists many animal groups and families that communicate with a language unable to be spoken by the human tongue, that share similar matching tales of their origin as a whole.
In this legends, the emergence of life in the jungle goes back to the time when "Yacuruna", the Goddess or essence of the tears that created the jungle, the living manifestation of the love between "Kuarah'y & Aras'y" (Sun and Moon in the Tupí-Guaraní language respectively), rose from the waters of the rivers of Amazonia and populated this rich land with the blessing of existence.
From there, all the created species contain the essence of Yacuruna; it is intrinsic within the souls of all the creatures of the Jungle. The Goddess founded an equilibrium that appointed that all forms of life were meant to be equal, since all were born from the same source... and for millennia, such was the way of things.
Nevertheless, a certain species, stood out from the others, thanks to what some might say was fate, or what others might say was the entropy of natural biological evolution: Mankind.
Humans were like any other animal created by Yacuruna, they had the same intelligence, knowledge and learning abilities; but with the passage of time, while all species evolved at their own pace, humans reached a higher level of insight that let them realize the inner disparity within their souls: Tesa'pe & Py't... Light and Darkness respectively.
Once aware of this two-sided concept, they began to wonder about the purpose of their creation, and as they deepened their kinship with disparity, humans assumed a fleeting form.
Some let themselves be guided by Light, dedicating their lives to protect the natural course of things, becoming protectors of life and continuing to live in harmony and peace with the jungle. But others embraced the Darkness, letting themselves be controlled by fears and developing a complex of superiority that would mold them to feel a sense of survival for their species over the others, deciding to leave the jungle and build their own world outside, beyond it's borders.
And that's the way it has been since then. Now, the descendants of those humans embraced by Light are the large number of tribes that still live in the Amazon jungle until this days, and the people embraced by Darkness now live in big cities and nations created by them in the so-called civilized world.
The established order of this world has progressed, and will continue for many thousands of years to come. But destiny had it's own agenda for this two worlds. Many kingdoms and nations of the civilized world have come and gone. Some drowned in pools of their own poison, another succumbed to the flames of war; even others lie slumbering under reigns of ice.
In contrast to this, Amazonia is the only place in this world that resists the march of time and traverses the echoes of space. It remains intact despite the natural change of the environment and the constant threats that, until recent times, has become it's worst disease: the Modern Men.
The human being is only a guest in the great score of it's mystery; and it's reason a mere slit from which only it's mysteries can be seen. The descendants of the primordial humans who embraced the Darkness of their souls and left behind the jungle to prosper according to their own beliefs, are returning to Amazonia to exploit and consume the benefits of this land and it's inhabitants; A land that, unbeknownst to them, was once their home, and now, they destroy without having a slight idea of the consequences. As a result, the descendants of the humans guided by the Light of their souls are always prepared to defend the sacred Amazon jungle, hoping the Dark to be banished from the face of this world.
And so, Tesa'pe and Py't converge again, but not to find peace and equilibrium as Yacuruna meant, but rather to erase each other from the face of the Earth.
This is the context in which the prophetic legend of Y'shaati, the Spirit of Amazonia, takes place...
In various mythologies of the different tribes in Amazonia exists a particular story about the future arrival of a holy being made of an amalgam of Tesa'pe & Py't. The Maraojara, one of the oldest and wisest tribes in the jungle first called it "Iara", but eventually the concept would be widespreaded through the jungle to be simply known as the "Spirit of Amazonia".
This being would be a crossbreed, the offspring resulting from the union of Light and Darkness. The affinity with the nature of the jungle of this spiritual being would be beyond the scope of Light and the reach of Dark... it would restore the originally balanced essence of Yacuruna in the souls of humans, just as animals and plants still have in their pure hearts.
It would demonstrate the irrefutable evidence that there is still hope for humans to return to be what they once were: one with the jungle...
However... in recent times, the legend still remains unfullfilled, since human tribes still await until this days for the Spirit of Amazonia to come to this land and accomplish it's divine purpose. Nonetheless, the animals of the Amazon jungle cry out to affirm to have witnessed the arrival of the Spirit of Amazonia some years ago in the form of a young female human, whom the animals have named Y'shaati, in which their varied unspeakable languages translates as the "white-skinned girl".
Several animal families claim to have raised the human girl since she was found deep in the jungle as little baby, teaching her the natural laws that govern Amazonia, but it's still a fable yet to be believed as a fact by the rest of the creatures.
Even that rumor exists and has spread through the voices of a few members of the distinct Human tribes that swear by the most sacred thing they have, that they have seen a beautiful and completely naked, white-skinned girl with a golden hair running through the vast paths of the Jungle and swinging through the treetops and vines of the rainforest with an incredible speed, agility and skills, matching those of the wild animals of Amazonia, and possessing the capability to understand their unespeakable words. Some of the wisemen of this tribes state that the figure of the feral girl resembles the ones of the primordial humans who lived in the jungle exactly like that, ages ago, prior to discovering the disparity in their soul.
Knowing this, the myth of the Spirit of Amazonia became stronger little by little, and began to be revered by many as a deity.
However, great would be the surprise of men if it were discovered that said divinity, promised savior of the Amazon jungle, had the most mundane of the origins within the story of an impossible love between two humans, born in different worlds, but united by the circumstances of destiny, parallel to the main legend of Kuarah'y & Aras'y that gave genesis to everything in Amazonia...
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