Poéticas do imaginário popular : serpentes no Quilombo de Mata Cavalo - MT

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Ronaldo Henrique
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMT
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufmt.br/handle/1/1957
• topic: Quilombo de Mata Cavalo; Narrativas orais; Serpentes; CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES; Mata Cavalo Quilombo; Oral narratives; Serpents

The image of the serpent constitutes one of the most important archetypes of the human imaginary, present in different cosmogonic myths and symbolic structures. The undeniable fact of the symbolism of temporal transformation, of the principle of fecundity, guardian of the mysteries of time and death. In considering the multifaceted symbolism of the serpent, this thesis aimed to verify how the imaginary on these animals / images are constituted in the quilombola community of Mata Cavalo-MT, based on the experiences and histories of the inhabitants, expressed in the oral narratives, which have them as protagonists. The rural community of Mata Cavalo is located in the town of Nossa Senhora do Livramento-MT, 50 km from the city of Cuiabá, with an area about 15 thousand hectares where almost 420 families live, in direct contact with the natural environment of the area, in which it has three important biome of Brazil, Amazon rainforest, pantanal and cerrado, rich in environmental diversity. We assume that the serpents, when incorporated by the culture, gain new perspectives that detach them from the natural place and include them in the supernatural. As animals, in the natural place, are absorbed by the culture, which offers two or more plans for multiple incorporations, by the processes of anthropomorphization. We have as a base qualitatively on a brief ethnographic description of the community and on a cartography of the notional, which showed the most significant elements in dealing with snakes in the local notional of community dwellers, the dynamics and entanglements that perpass their experiences with the snakes that occasionally appear. There are numerous symbolic approaches present in the narratives about snakes: However, they are associated with the specific traits of local culture, such as the linking of the rattlesnake to the troll viola, or the reproduction of stories common to other places. Still, we have fundamental elements that compose the narratives about snakes, the role of the benzedor or benzedeira that heals snakebites, the morphology of the animal that collaborates to stimulate certain mysteries, the eyes that enchant or magnetize the victims, the breath and the mortal sound to humans, the approach with the woman, among others. In addition to the negative representation from the Jewish-Christian ideal, the serpent establishes itself in the popular imagery of innumerable forms, conformed in the unfolded processes of culture and personalized according to the social group. Thus, the serpent establishes itself in the popular imaginary of Mata Cavalo that moves in different places in the process of cultural movement of nature and of the supernatural.