Linhas de fundo do encantamento nas águas do Patu-Anu: principais distinções da Pajelança Cabocla e a espiritualidade da cidade de Soure na Ilha do Marajó

Abstract

The presentation of our research theme – entitled "BACKLINES OF ENCHANTMENT IN THE WATERS OF PATU-ANU: main distinctions of Pajelança Cabocla and spirituality in the city of Soure/Ilha do Marajó" - has as its core object the examination of phenomena related to denominated energies of nature (wide spectrum) that “talk”/interact directly with the mediums (shamans, shamans, “sorcerers”) and indirectly with those who want to believe in these forces and in these caboclo shamans, not inconspicuous initiates, on the contrary: very distinct. The justification is based both on the aspects of authorship's involvement with the pulsating virtues of the Pajelança Cabocla in the north of Brazil, where the phenomena of popular religiosity influences and permeates everything (personal justification) and on the inherent relevance of studies on the religiosity of caboclo populations in the Amazon Brazilian (thematic, scientific or academic justification itself), either because many aspects remain under-examined, or because the complexity and dynamics of popular religiosity in the Amazon region do not allow us to exhaust those studies already undertaken so far. It is also important to highlight the role of women in that universe, whose remote relevance is increasingly getting mixed up with the myths that today are reinterpreted in the light, for example, of the New Religious Movements. It was possible to conclude that the theme of cabocla pajelança deserves reflection, due to the meaning it has in Amazonian culture, extrapolating the purely religious aspect, thus being a conspicuous element both of the so-called popular medicines and, in a broader spectrum, of the phenomena around the “Amazon Enchantment ”, which permeates the imagination of populations full of meanings and peculiar experiences.