Master Fish Dwelling

 

 

 

 

 
 
The Master Fish dwells on the Upper Inirida River in the Amazonia region of Brazil. A rock shelter is painted with land and sea creatures and abstract symbols.

These "houses of the waters" are sacred and dangerous places and navigated in silence.

The principal task of a pay'e  is to visit the abode of the Master Fish, there to negotiate for a certain number of creatures to be killed in exchange for the deaths of an equivalent number of human beings whose souls would then be reincarnated in replenishment  of those the hunters would have killed.
 

Whatcom Museum of History and Art - First place in Internation Exhibition
 

#414 H. 54" W. 58"
 
Campbell, Joseph. The Way of the Seeded Earth, Volume II, Part III: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters; The Middle and Southern Americas. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989. p. 347.
 

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