Terramoto, sombra, o início do mundo
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2024-12-29
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Lusofona University
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Este texto é sobre Victor Bor, Tio Jorge e Ntombikte Na Natchi, que em meados dos anos 1980s, sentiram o terramoto interior do Kyangyang, a "Sombra" em Balanta Kuntohe. Este fenómeno teve lugar durante o período em que Nino Vieira foi o presidente da república da Guiné-Bissau, entre 1980 e 1998, e em que o psiquiatra holandês Joop de Jong dirigia o hospital psiquiátrico de Bissau. O Kyangyang ficou para a história como um movimento messiânico pós-colonial que provocou enorme turbulência no seio da comunidade Balanta deste pequeno território da África ocidental. De uma forma geral, tanto as pessoas que fizeram parte do movimento como as que estavam à sua volta, descrevem-no como composto por pessoas que haviam sido apanhadas pela Sombra, ou seja, que de modo súbito e sincronizado viram e ouviram os mortos revelarem-lhes os segredos da escrita e da cura. Victor Bor descreve visões de luzes e explosões que, por vezes, se confundem com episódios da guerra de libertação que se havia passado uma década atrás, mas também com a guerra civil que no final dos anos 1990s destruiu o hospital psiquiátrico projetado por Joop de Jong. Tio Jorge, o irmão da mulher que logo nos anos 1980s se tornou na profetiza do Kyangyang, disse numa conversa que tivémos em Bedanda em 2019, sul da Guiné-Bissau, que tudo começou com um pequeno tremor de terra. Palavras-chave: Desenho/Escrita Talismânica/Sonhos/Guiné-Bissau/Kyangyang
This text is about Victor Bor, Tio Jorge and Ntombikte Na Natchi, who in the mid-1980s felt the inner earthquake of Kyangyang, the “Shadow” in Balanta Kuntohe. This phenomenon took place during the period when Nino Vieira was president of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, between 1980 and 1998, and when Dutch psychiatrist Joop de Jong ran the psychiatric hospital in Bissau. The Kyangyang went down in history as a post-colonial messianic movement that caused enormous turbulence within the Balanta community of this small West African territory. In general, both the people who were part of the movement and those around them describe it as being made up of people who had been caught up in the Shadow, i.e. who suddenly and synchronously saw and heard the dead reveal to them the secrets of writing and healing. Victor Bor describes visions of lights and explosions that are sometimes confused with episodes from the liberation war that took place a decade ago, but also with the civil war that at the end of the 1990s destroyed the psychiatric hospital designed by Joop de Jong. Tio Jorge, the brother of the woman who became the prophetess of Kyangyang in the 1980s, said in a conversation we had in Bedanda in 2019, in southern Guinea-Bissau, that it all started with a small earthquake. Keywords: Drawing/Talismanic Writing/Dreams/Guinea-Bissau/Kyangyang
This text is about Victor Bor, Tio Jorge and Ntombikte Na Natchi, who in the mid-1980s felt the inner earthquake of Kyangyang, the “Shadow” in Balanta Kuntohe. This phenomenon took place during the period when Nino Vieira was president of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, between 1980 and 1998, and when Dutch psychiatrist Joop de Jong ran the psychiatric hospital in Bissau. The Kyangyang went down in history as a post-colonial messianic movement that caused enormous turbulence within the Balanta community of this small West African territory. In general, both the people who were part of the movement and those around them describe it as being made up of people who had been caught up in the Shadow, i.e. who suddenly and synchronously saw and heard the dead reveal to them the secrets of writing and healing. Victor Bor describes visions of lights and explosions that are sometimes confused with episodes from the liberation war that took place a decade ago, but also with the civil war that at the end of the 1990s destroyed the psychiatric hospital designed by Joop de Jong. Tio Jorge, the brother of the woman who became the prophetess of Kyangyang in the 1980s, said in a conversation we had in Bedanda in 2019, in southern Guinea-Bissau, that it all started with a small earthquake. Keywords: Drawing/Talismanic Writing/Dreams/Guinea-Bissau/Kyangyang
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AUDIOVISUAL, TYPOGRAPHY, ANTHROPOLOGY, DREAMS, WRITING, DRAWING, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, GUINEA BISSAU, POST-COLONIALISM, AUDIOVISUAL, TIPOGRAFIA, ANTROPOLOGIA, SONHOS, ESCRITA, DESENHO, CRENÇAS RELIGIOSAS, GUINÉ BISSAU, PÓS-COLONIALISMO
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Barroca, D 2024, 'Terramoto, sombra, o início do mundo', International Journal of Film and Media Arts, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 96-101. https://doi.org/10.60543/ijfma.v9i2.9916