Mytholudens

ATTENTION, PLEASE!! WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP THE KAYAPO PEOPLE AND MANY OTHER INDIGENOUS NATIONS AT XINGU AGAINST THE MEGA WOUND AT THE HEART OF AMAZON WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BELO MONTE HIDROELECTIC DAM? STING IS TRYING TO HELP AND DESERVES OUR APPLAUSE AND SUPPORT.

http://www.sting.com/news/news.php?uid=6337

Brasília has prepared a meeting with a diversity of traditional peoples and communities which preserve the Cerrado from different parts of Brazil. The VI National Meeting of the Cerrado Peoples was a initiative of Rede Cerrado. It happened on September 2009 from the 9th to 13rd. To know more about it and to participate, please visit:

http://www.povosdocerrado.com.br/index_volta.html

Dona Pedrelina (photo above) came from Ribeirão de Areia, Minas Gerais for the meeting and to dance. Dona Lili (she doesn´t appear in the photo) also came to dance with many other warriors and dancers. They are from the Comunidade Quilombola Retiro dos Bois Grande Sertão Veredas:

- Dona Pedrelina, what do you dance?

- Daughter, I dance Carneiro, Peneira, Cana Verde, Chote Chorirá, Lundu, Abra a Roda, Xiriri...

- And I (Dona Lili), I dance Manzuá, Tamanduá, Roda, Ariri, Cobra, O Pulo do Guará, Roda Baiana, Lundu, and many others! The Manzuá dance is something from the past, it is not something to give a surprise. And this bag we carry is comforted with the leaves from nature.

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SOS CERRADO CONVOCATION: the Movimento do Cerrado Vivo invites all to write SOS CERRADO on Friday 11/11/09 Cerrado´s Day at 10:30am, in front of the National Congress. The Movimento do Cerrado Vivo is a initiative of a small group of young people (yellow t-shirts), very enthusistic, courageous and with action!

SOS Cerrado

CONGRATULATION TO ALL WHO WERE THERE FOR THIS MOVEMENT!!!!

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Mitoludens is giving the Myth Classes at the Brasilia Botanic Garden 2008/2009. Our Garden! Brasilia Botanic Garden is a very pleasant place with green paths with all the biodiversity of the Cerrado alive and preserved. If lucky, we can see deers, monkeys, armadillos, different kinds of birds and many more of the cerrado nature. Our classes on Mythology through the Archetypal Lens were offered at the charming white Tea´s House. Welcome! To know more about the course, please visit our page on Mythology; to know more about the Brasilia Botanic Garden, please visit http://www.jardimbotanico.df.gov.br/ .

2008 was the first year of Mitoludens there and it was a joy! In 2009, Mitoludens decided to watch-out! (an expression we use to see also outside our own internal experiences and do take action caring also for our anima mundi). In this way, Mitoludens is participating in many activities without losing its ideals and opening to the diversity. In November 2009 we are going to visit the Aldeia Kayapó - Pará. We promise you some good images! To 2010, Mitoludens will be offering Myth Courses also in other cities besides Brasília. Keep in touch to receive our news!

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The big fire that spread at the National Park of Brasília reached some areas of Mitoludens when it used to be located at Chácara Mico Estrela. It was sad to see our so well preserved Cerrado into fire. Spring arrived in Brasil and fortunately Cerrado is always inspired to be born from the ashes. See the photos below: within two weeks after the fire we can see the new flowers! On the other side of the hill, where the fire didn´t reach us, we can see our preserved Cerrado and the traditional yellow Ipês.

Mitoludens started its activities in a well preserved green area of the rupestrian cerrado. However, there was yet some areas invaded by brachiaria. We gradually recovered these areas. We did plant native trees of cerrado to reintegrate the primitive flora. Some 50 native species was selected by the alimentary preferences of the fauna and by the fast growing and dissemination of the species. Some examples of what we had planted and taken care of:

* Angico Vermelho – Anadenanthera colubrina var. columbrina

* Araticum – Annona coriacea Mart.

* Aroeira – Myracroduon urundeuva.

* Barbatimão de folha miúda – Dimorphandra mollis Benth.

* Baru ou combaru – Dypterix alata

* Boca-Boa - (Combretaceae) Buchenavia tomentosa Eichl.

* Buriti – Mauritia flexuosa L.f.

* Cagaita – Eugenia dysenterica DC.

* Chichá – Sterculia chicha St. Hil. Ex Turpin

* Copaíba ou Pau d´óleo – Copaifera langsdorffii Desf.

* Faveiro – Peltophorum dubium (Spreng.) Taub.

* Gabiroba – Campomanesia eugenioides (Cambess.) D. Legrand

* Gariroba – Syagrus oleracea (Mart.) Becc.

* Imbiruçu-do-Cerrado - (Bombacaceae) Pseudolombax tomentosum (Mart. & Zucc.) A. Robyns

* Ingá – Ingá cylindrica

* Ipê Amarelo – Tabebuia alba (Cham.) Sandw.

* Ipê Branco – Tabebuia roseo-alba (Ridl.) Sand.

* Ipê Caraíba – Tabebuia carayba: ornamental, espécie de cerrado.

* Ipê Roxo – Tabebuia avellanedae Lor. Ex. Griseb

* Jaracatiá – Jacaratia spinosa (Aubl.) A. DC.

* Jatobá da mata – Hymenaea courbaril

* Jatobá do cerrado – Hymenaea stigonocarpa

* Jenipapo – Genipa americana

* Jequitibá – Cariniana estrellensis (Raddi) Kuntze

* Lobeira – Solanum lycocarpum St. Hil.

* Mangaba – Hancornia speciosa

* Monjoleiro (Acácia) – Acácia polyphylla DC

* Paineira-Branca ou Barriguada - (Bombacaceae) Chorisia glaziovii (Kuntze) E. Santos.

* Pequi – Caryocar brasiliense Camb.

* Quaresmeira – Tibouchina stenostachya

* Urucum – Bixa orelana L.

* Pau de Tucano – Vochysia tucanorum Mart.

More than 70 species of native flowers were cataloged:

Blue, Violet, Lilas Flowers:

Arrabidaea brachypoda

Mandevilla tenuifolia

Epistephium sclerophyllum

Lavoisiera bergii

Irlbachia speciosa

Hyptis cardiophylla

Chresta sphaerocephala – João-bobo

Periandra mediterrane

Diplusodon oblongus

Solanum subumbellatum - Jurubeba-de-cupim

Ruellia incompta

Solanum aff. lycocarpum - Lobeira

Vellozia flavicans – Canela-d´Ema

Tibouchina candolleana – Quaresmeira

Microlicia loricata – Roxinha

Tibouchina aegopogon - Quaresma-do-campo

Microlicia euphorbioides

Vernonia monocephala

Pink Flowers:

Mandevilla illustris - Jalapa

Ipomoea procumbens – Corda-de-viola-do-campo

Hypenia macrantha

Banisteriopsis campestris

Arrabidaea sceptrum – Lírio-do-campo

Peltaea polymorpha

Mimosa decorticans – Angiquinho

Galactia peduncularis

Microlicia aff.selaginea - Quaresminha

Tococa formicaria

Deianira pallescens - Boca-de-sapo

Kielmeyera ribriflora – Rosa-do-campo

Yellow Flowers:

Qualea grandiflora - Pau-terra-da-folha-larga

Trimezia juncifolia - Ruibarbo-amarelo

Utricularia fimbriata

Xyris hymenachne - Pimentinha-prateada

Tabebuia ochracea - Ipê-amarelo

Vochysia elliptica – Folha gorda

Camarea ericoides

Cipura flava

Chamaecrista orbiculata – Moeda

Achyrocline satureoides - Macelinha

Vochysia rufa – Pau-doce

Vochysia thyrsoidea – Vinheiro

Peixotoa sp.

Byrsonima crassa – Murici-vermelho

Cyrtopodium eugenii Reichb.f. (ORCHIDACEAE). SUMARÉ. - Rabo-de-tatu

Orange and Red Flowers:

Turnera longiflora

Gomphrena arborescens - Para-tudo

Cissus erosa

Augusta longifolia - Sarão

Palicourea rigida - Bate-Caixa, Chapéu-de-couro, Douradão, Gritadeira

Calliandra dysantha – Flor-do-cerrado

White and Beige Flowers:

Paepalanthus acanthophyllus – Chuveirinho

Paepalanthus speciosus – Sombreiro

Ipomoea squamisepala

Paspalum stellarum - Orelha de Coelho

Eremanthus goyazensis

Rhynchospora consangüínea – Capim-estrela

Bauhinia bongardii - Unha-de-boi

Miconia burchelli

Miconia ferruginata – Quaresma-roxa

Hymenaea stigonocarpa - Jatobá-do-cerrado

Kielmeyera coriacea – Pau-santo

Hancornia speciosa - Mangaba

Irlbachia alata

Utricularia neottioides

Himatanthus obovatus - Pau-de-leite

Odontadenia lutea - Flor-de-veado

Tocoyena formosa - Pé-de-macaco

Campomanesia pubescens - Gabiroba

Aspidosperma verbascifolium - Peroba-do-campo

Native Fruits:

Anacardium humile - Cajueiro-do-campo

Duguetia furfuracea - Sofre-do-rim-quem-quer

Phoradendron crassifolium - Erva-de-passarinho

Wunderlichia mirabilis - Flor-do-pau

Eugenia angustissima

Miconia alborufescens

Phthirusa ovata - Enxerto-de-passarinho

Tocoyena formosa - Pé-de-macaco

Aspidosperma tomentosum - Palmeira-do-campo

See our history in Cerrado Revival of Mitoludens.

Plant so that your own heart will grow.

Sing because this is a food our world so needs.

And Laugh, laugh because that is the purest sound.

Hafiz.

Renderings by Daniel Ladinsky & Translated to Portuguese by Luciana Aires Mesquita.

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