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Piracha is a tribe living in harmony with nature

Is it possible in our time to be happy without the benefits of civilization, without modern gadgets, living in the open air? It turns out, you can. This is how tribal Indians live, living in Asia, Australia, South America and Africa.

Children of nature

The life of each of them is interesting in its own way. In Brazil there is a piraha - a tribe, the number of which is only about seven hundred people. Modern civilization did not touch them. Therefore people of the tribe of the pirate are in blissful confidence that nothing better than their life. Perhaps they are right.

In order to be good at the members of your community, you do not need to have any extensive skills or knowledge. Piracha (the tribe that interests us in this material) live very simply, they also communicate with each other. In conversation, they use only simple phrases, without the use of indirect speech and never talk about things they did not see themselves.

Who are they

It is interesting that, given their small number, this people does not consider themselves a kindred community. The relationship for them ends with the concepts of "dad" and "mother", that is, those who gave birth to a child, there is also a brother and sister. With the rest they just live side by side. They attach great importance to their names. For them, there is no concept of aging, since they are not familiar with anatomy and believe that they simply go from one body to another. Therefore, every 6-8 years, members of the tribe change their name. The word denoting it contains an indication of age, so that even without seeing a person, one can say who is talking about the child or the old man.

Sleepless

Piracha (tribe) have an interesting feature. Members of the tribe do not like to sleep, which very much distinguishes them from modern society, in which it is believed that sleep is useful, and the more you spend time on it, the better you look. In our world, sleep is attributed to rejuvenating and even fat burning properties. And the Indians of this tribe, on the contrary, think that it has a bad effect on the appearance and old age is attributed to him. They believe that the less you sleep, the longer you will live. Therefore they doze, even without going to bed. They sleep where fatigue finds them, they wake up and immediately begin their usual business.

What are you doing?

They have little care. The tribe consists of only hunters, gatherers. In this way they earn their living. About making reserves, the Indians do not care. It is harmful to eat a lot, that's why they calm themselves, if on some day they did not manage to catch any animal for their lunch. Although in the Amazon, where they live, there are always a lot of living creatures and vegetation. Clothing they also do not need, because in their places of habitation is warm. In their spare time people of this tribe play, are engaged in making utensils, nursing with children. As pets they keep dogs, communication with which also gives them pleasure.

You do not need much

It is interesting that a piraha is a tribe whose members can not count. For them there are only two concepts: "one" and "many". Probably, because they have everything in common: objects of everyday life, and prey. Also, the Indians of this tribe do not call the color of the world that surrounds them. Their language allows us to give only two definitions: "light" and "dark". Although the researchers found that they differ in color and shade. But the paints for drawing they do not and do not get carried away by this occupation, like other tribes of Indians.

Features of speech

Linguists of the world are still surprised by the unusual language of the tribe of the piraha. He is rightfully considered unique. In order to study it, former missionary Everett had to live with his wife in the tribe for several years. And although he learned to speak in this language, he could not understand how he originated, because he does not resemble any language in the world.

It lacks many concepts to which modern people are accustomed. It does not contain superfluous words, meaningless, invented to denote what is not in the tribe itself. For example, these Indians are not allowed to say hello or say goodbye, so there are no words like "Hello", "Goodbye". There is no account, so there are no numbers, just like the colors. And the alphabet consists of only 7 consonants and three vowels. Despite this, the piraha perfectly understand each other. Even the primitiveness of the language does not prevent them from enjoying fellowship.

Forest is a friend

Since the Indians live among trees on the banks of the river, which give them everything they need in life, their entire existence is connected with this. To explain much of what is happening around them, a pirate can not, therefore they believe that the forest is inhabited by spirits. They talk to them as if they actually see, children play with the spirits, and after the death the Indians themselves become them. The fact that the spirits are not seen by other people, they explain by the fact that they are shown only to the one to whom they came.

Piracha avoid meeting with civilization, but she herself comes to them. This tribe was discovered 300 years ago. Until now, people are not haunted by their quiet life among nature. But is it necessary to prevent the pirha from living in harmony with nature, offering to change such existence for the opportunity to possess modern gadgets?

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