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Moonblood

Price: $295.00
Secondary Title: : A Yanomamö Creation Myth as Told by Dedeheiwa
Filmmaker Name: Timothy Asch, Napoleon Chagnon
Film Length: 14 min
Film Year: 1976
Duration: 0-20 min
Decade: 1970s
Series: Yanomamö series
Color: color
Region: South America
Subject: Storytelling, Myth and Folklore
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In this myth, the Yanomamö account for the creation of human beings and for their ferocity. The myth is told by the shaman Dedeheiwä. 

Long ago, when people "like us" lived in a village "over there," Moon lived there too, and ate the souls of children. The villagers became very angry, especially because when Moon descended to consume the ashes of children, hanging from the roof in gourds, he crunched and chanted as he gloated over his evil tricks. So the ancestor Suhirina, who was very beautiful and tall, shot the moon with a bamboo-tipped arrow, and Moon's blood spilled all over the earth. Human beings came from this blood: strong and fierce people from the center where the most blood spilled, and weaker people from the Moon's droplets.

You are from true blood, Dedeheiwä tells Chagnon, because there are many of you; my own village is weak, as we are descended from the droplets. It is because of Moon's blood, explains the shaman, that men fight and kill each other.

Moonblood was restored by DER with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.


CREDITS & INFO

Moonblood: A Yanomamö Creation Myth as Told by Dedeheiwa

Script and Narration
Napoleon A. Chagnon 

Production Assistance
John Marshall
Jean Carroll
Sue Marshall
David Green 

Sound Mix
Chas. Bicking
Cody Co.

Titles
Miret Film Title Service
 
Optical Effects
Film Opticals

Color
Cine Magnetics 

Negative Cutter
Ben Cantesano 

Camera: Arri BL Film: ECO 7255 
Sound: Nagra III Radio Sync, Stuart Cody

Produced at the Center for Documentary Anthropology with the financial assistance of: Documentary Educational Resources, National Science Foundation, Coast Community College, and District Telecommunications.

The collaboration of our colleagues at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cienti ficas (I.V.I.C.) is greatly appreciated.

©1975 Napoleon A. Chagnon, Timothy Asch, and Documentary Educational Resources. 


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