Pemon people

Pemón or Pemong ( from Pemón: true people ') is the name of the Caribs attributed Indigenous People of South America.

The majority of the approximately 30,000 Pemon now lives in the Venezuelan state of Bolívar in the Essequibo territory and in the Gran Sabana and along the Rio Branco in the neighboring Brazilian state of Roraima, as well as in the Paruima settlement in Guyana.

The Pemon live mostly inland in small settlements, which are just across the small foothills of the Orinoco, by pulling the Bolívar, accessible.

Dialect and tribal groups of the Pemon

There are three different dialect and tribal groups:

• Taurepan ( Taulipang ): in the Sierra Pacaraima (Portuguese Serra Pacaraima ) and Roraima Tepui ( from Pemón: roroi - ' turquoise blue, fruitful ', ma - 'big' ) in the region where Venezuela, Brazil and Guyana, approximately 1,500 tribal members
• Arekuna ( Arecuna ): in the northwest of the state of Roraima, Brazil, and in the Canaima National Park in the valley of the Upper Río Caroní, usually in the local mission settlement Kavanayen (Santa Teresita de Kavanayen ) in the southeast of the state of Bolivar, Venezuela, approximately 1,500 tribal members
• Kamarakoto ( Karamagoto, Camaracoto ): to the west of Río Karuay, on the Río Caroní, Río Paragua and Kamarata Valley in both states of Amazonas and Bolivar in Venezuela, with some smaller groups in neighboring Brazil (sometimes their dialect regarded as a separate language )

The Arekuna can best be understood that also nordkaribisch - speaking Akawaio ( Acawayo, Akawai ) and Patamona addition to the Pemon.

All Pemón - tribal groups, as well as the linguistically related Akawaio and Patamona are in Brazil as Ingarikó ( Ingaricó ) ( ' Jungle People ') ( a name from the neighboring Makushi ( Macushi, Portuguese: Macuxi ) ), in Venezuela and Guyana, these three nations, however, usually under the Pemon name Kapon ( Kapong ) ( ' sky - people, people who came from the sky ' ) are known.

Myths

According to tradition, the Pemon their culture bringer was a god named Chiricavai, who returned after a Erdaufenthalt to the stars, but to show up at some point on the earth again.

The Kueka Stone

The German artist Wolfgang Kraker of black box left in 1999 to create a 35 -ton stone from the area of the Pemon in the Canaima National Park in the Berlin Tiergarten, where he is currently located is part of the art project Global Stone. Since then, the Pemon reclaim the stone which they claim for themselves as sanctuary. Since 2000, Venezuelan and German authorities have dealt with the subject and try a return of the stone from the artist to obtain.