#Bribrí

[pechirojo4]

•Tsàita̱mi̱ 🐚

Tsàita̱mi̱, whose name means "all waters" and "sea woman" is the Mermaid protector of the seas of Natlan, in charge of the protection of marine beings and navigators.

It is well known throughout Natlan that if you want her blessing you must leave her an offering at the mouth of the river to the sea before leaving and respect the boundaries of his home. If your offering is to her liking and your attitude has been respectful, you will obtain one of her protective pearls, carry said pearl and you will have no harm during your trip.

However, all those who have done harm to the sea and its habitants will not be received in a good way; she herself will be in charge of sinking their ships and bringing misfortune with her song.

Her home is located in the Río de Aguas Celestes at the foot of the great Tenori volcano, however she can frequently be found in the Tortuga River where she protects the few remaining manatees, this being the most protected animal in the area by Tsàita̱mi̱ Herself. . .

Her song can be heard on clear nights on the seashore and in the rivers, if you pay attention you can find her.

This drawing was created for a collaboration with other artists, where each one created their own character. I fell in love with its design. I plan to draw more of her.

Her design is inspired by national areas, legends and symbols of my country, Costa Rica, mainly from the manatee and the guaria morada.

Her name name, Tsàita̱mi̱, comes from the Bribrí language which means "sea woman"

Here I also leave a small edit with the rest of the characters

[gilbertohernandezquiros]

Thank you #Sulá #Bribrí for so much commitment and enthusiasm throughout our educational journey during 2017. We have come to a close but I do expect to see you in 2018. Thanks!

[super-maracaes]

La historia del Pueblo Bribri en Costa Rica.

La historia del Pueblo Bribri en Costa Rica.

El pueblo bribri constituye uno de los grupos étnicos más numerosos de Costa Rica. Aunque la distribución de los pueblos autóctonos costarricenses antes de la conquista no es muy conocida actualmente, sí se tiene certeza de que tanto los bribris como los cabécares estaban asentados en la cordillera de Talamanca. (more…)

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 9 February 2020, Bribrí Indigenous rights activist Mainor Ortíz Delgado was shot and wounded on his land in Salitre, Costa Rica. At around 2 PM he was shot in the leg by a person on a motorbike, who was subsequently detained by police then released. It was reportedly the third time Ortiz has been shot by members of the same family, who were apparently non-Indigenous illegal settlers trying to take land. Despite Costa Rica officially giving land to its Indigenous peoples in 1977, most territory is still occupied illegally by non-Indigenous people who frequently attack and kill land-defenders. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1917713531747121/?type=3

[chorizobombonhelado]

pero el ferrocarril no es el tema mae váyase uste de guápiles y no vuelva más a la política está loca tengo malos recuerdos de ella por toda la zona el pelo blanco como río frío una bolsa de mango seco en la cabeza bribrí - sixaola es conocida yo estuve en juicio con uno me dicen caribarro por intenso de asesinato y si lo perdía me quitaban todo la casa el terreno los dos puse a nombre de la mujer lo gané y me quedé sin nada nuevamente como un perro en la calle me encontré con un compa mejor váyae lejos y olvide todo consígase un terrenillo en otro lado perdete entre la mata como es de very tasty fruit sueña cosas que no son.

[twelvemonkeyswere]

Due to the new year, I hadn't had a chance to check my mentions, and let me say thank you so much for typing all this up, it made me smile so much. I'm really glad you found my post informative and fun and that you love Jurassic Park as much as I do and honestly thank you, you've flattered me immensely.

As I was reading your post I was getting ready to reply saying that since I wrote this post I managed to read the actual novel!!!! And even I had to google the word "Hupia" when I found it because sadly the Hupia is not part of our culture at all, but you figured that out yourself.

It's one of the (honestly few) things Michael Crichton included in the story that isn't Costa Rican at all. As you yourself said, it's a Taíno legend, which means Puerto Rico and maybe other Caribbean islands. Costa Rica is often confused with Puerto Rico but I seriously doubt this was a slip up, since the book actually has a shit-ton of research behind it, and it actually addresses some of issues and has some of the solutions I proposed for the movies. I think it was probably intentional since he couldn't find something that served the narrative he wanted and settled for the Hupia.

I made a twitter thread some months ago as I reacted to the audiobook in case you're curious! I typed as I listened and as I did house chores so it's not the neatest but just in case! I let the hupia thing slip honestly because I also cannot think of any similar creature or myth that can be used for this purpose either. There might be a bird-god somewhere in the local native myths, maybe the Bribrí or Cabécar cultures, but I don't know enough about these peoples and their religions and cosmologies to give you a satisfying answer.

For example, with a quick google search I confirmed the harpy eagle is an important figure here, even if it's not a god. For the Bribrí, it's an important creature because it helped Sibö in his search to help humankind, but the Cabécar believe it's evil since they have a myth these eagles eat people. And this is a Birbrí representation of such an eagle:

(taken from this post in Spanish, the pendant is stored in the Jade Museum, which is a beautiful museum and I love it)

I think using a representation of this kind could work for a dino, since they're described as bird-like, and the connection could be easily made. But even if these could be worked into the narrative, they are not widespread beliefs or myths around here, and are more recognizable to the closed indigenous communities they belong to than to the general population. The Bribrí also have a general category of demon called the bé, but I don't know how they are represented. I think if someone like Crichton wanted to use something like this he would have had to make up a myth or legend himself and include that as part of the world building of the story. I wouldn't have been opposed at all to such a solution, but he probably wanted to keep it as realistic as possible, so he likely borrowed the legend from Puerto Rico thinking it would feel latino enough, it's pretty widespread so it makes sense it would have migrated here, and that at least it was real. This is me just speculating, of course.

Descriptions of locations and the health care system as well as political and economic details about Costa Rica are all spot on in the novel given the time and place of its production, and it makes me incredibly happy to know so much care and effort came into the creation of this universe. The novel goes into great lengths to depict Costa Rica as a lively and complex country full of people, people from all walks of life and with all kinds of problems and types of expertise. Doing this enhances the novel so much imo because then when the danger of the dinos is more evident, it's not just the island and the USA folks in it that are in danger, but the people of Costa Rica and, by extension, the people of the world as well.

It's an awesome book and I've already talked so much about it. Thank you so much, @jurassicpark45, for asking and for engaging with the story and with my post as much or more as I did, really appreciate it.

A list of inaccuracies about Costa Rica in the Jurassic Park movie franchise, from a Costa Rican who adores Jurassic Park:

Famously, the capital of Costa Rica--San José--isn't nowhere near the coast

Rancheras aren't blasted very often at restaurants either. Rancheras are more a Mexican tradition.

Costa Rica has a strict policy about protecting national parks. Our most famous island, which is pretty far away from the mainland, is Coco's Island. It's uninhabited except for the park rangers, no civilian visitors are ever allowed to protect the integrity of the island. The only way five islands that big remained uninhabited in Costa Rican territory is if they had been part of a national park, too. INGen wouldn't have been able to purchase the islands at all in the first place.

In that same vein, a possible solution, narrative-wise, would be for INGen to involve the government of Costa Rica from the get-go, and get special permission to develop a biodiversity protection program in the island as well as their own thing. Quid pro quo. This sounds way more plausible than Costa Rica just selling WHOLE islands to some gringos (Costa Rica sells bits--sometimes BIG bits, against every moral--but not whole islands).

Also, INGen would have at least one Costa Rican nagging them about paperwork and bureaucracy at all times.

In addition, all of Costa Rica's coastline is by law public space, which means nobody can legally own it, even if they own the land immediately behind the beach. Locals would have been, if not living, at least regularly visiting the islands before and after INGen was established there, esp if they had caught wind that it was meant to be an amusement park. Ellie and Alan wouldn't have been with half a foot on the ground when a guy would have strolled with his copos stand to offer them some.

Costa Rica doesn't have sequoias nor could it have any. I have no idea where The Lost World thought it was set in but it def was not Costa Rica!!!

Same energy as Jurassic World having a fucking mosasaurus eating a very much endagendered white shark. As a nation we already have a lot of problems with corruption from officials and people fighting against shark finning. Allowing a MOSASAURUS to live within Costa Rican seas AND to eat a white shark is not even fantasy, it's straight up delusion*.

Most of the employees at both the early Jurassic Park and then in Jurassic World are from the USA. I have no idea where those guys live or how often they travel to the mainland or who handles their residencies and social securities. It's more common for gringo-owned companies in the country (think hotels) to have admin staff be gringos too but the rest being locals.

Costa Rica has a strict anti-military presence policy in its territory, which means it doesn't even allow military ships to dock in its international ports or military aircraft to fly over the country, with *very few* exceptions. Ellie, as much as I love her, wouldn't have been able to send the USA military to the island to rescue Alan & co. in JP 3. It's more likely a rescue party from the government of CR had been issued and provided.

Similarly, I don't imagine the Costa Rican government prepared to trap the dinosaurs left by INGen, but I can perfectly imagine them asking for help from bigger nations to help catch the animals before the island's ecology was ruined. They would probably try to seize the creatures and lots of discussion would've gone into what the hell to do with them. They would probably have demanded INGen itself to arrange and perform the logistics of the extraction. I just mean INGen would not have JUST sat there without consequences because they "owned" the island.

However, the fact Jurassic World is a small niche of rich gringos once it's open **is** the most factual part of Jurassic World because there's no way a local could have afforded the prices in that park. Tourism is mostly for foreigners and it is always like that!

Nobody ever says "pura vida", not even once.

[aileenilustra]

Diseño de portada e ilustraciones de todo el manual aileen© 2015 Proyecto el Medio Rural frente a los Retos del Cambio Climático - Manual de Prácticas Ancestrales Bribrí y Cabécar Territorio Talamanca - Valle La Estrella Elaborado por Culturas y Desarrollo de Centroamérica, desarrollado por el Equipo de CUDECA. ® 2015 #illustratorgirl #bookillustration #illustration #drawings #natives #costarican #drawingeveryday #doodle #graphicdesign #talamanca #bribri #cabecar

[naicr]

Adulto mayor vecino de Bribri se encuentra desaparecido

Adulto mayor vecino de Bribrí se encuentra desaparecido

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Redacción, 27 enero 2020.- Un adulto mayor vecino del sector de Bribri en Limón se encuentra desaparecido desde el pasado 23 de enero.

Se trata de Rogelio Collins Lindo, de 69 años de edad.

Ante la denuncia por desaparición interpuesta por la familia del adulto mayor, el Organismo de Investigación Judicial ha difundido la fotografía de este hombre…

[gilbertohernandezquiros]

Obsequio de una de mis estudiantes en #Bribrí. ¡Me encanta! #travelinglanguagedoctor #thetravelingteacher

[workingclasshistory]

On this day, 18 March 2019, Bribrí Indigenous leader, Sergio Rojas, was assassinated in Costa Rica. Rojas, who was co-coordinator of the National Front of Indigenous People (FRENAPI), had been campaigning since 2010 for the return of Indigenous land. By law, 11,700 hectares of land is legally owned by Bribrí and Teribe people. However, thousands of non-Indigenous settlers occupy at least 60% of it, and consider the Indigenous people to be "invaders." Violent attacks by settlers on Indigenous people campaigning to reclaim their land are frequent in the region, and while the courts have ordered the Costa Rican government to take action to protect Bribrí people, they have failed to do so and typically attacks are not even investigated, let alone prosecuted. Rojas himself had reported threats made against him to prosecutors, and was living separately from his wife and children in order to protect them at the time he was killed in his home. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1377812722403874/?type=3

[puro-periodismo]

Estupor y repudio por muerte de líder indígena bribri

Estupor y repudio por muerte de líder indígena bribri

Edgar Fonseca, editor

El asesinato del líder indígena Bribrí, Sergio Rojas Ortíz, de 59 años, la noche del lunes, en su casa en  Buenos Aires, Puntarenas,  causó estupor público y fue repudiado esta mañana por el Presidente de la República,  Carlos Alvarado, y por la Defensora de los Habitantes.

El suceso conmovió a medios oficiales conocedores de la actividad de Rojas en defensa de los derechos…

[aloticocostarricense]

¡Alotico celebra el día de las culturas! Nueva colección Mae en Bribri, en variedad de colores, precio: 10.000 colones.

[topcostarica]

Un muerto tras aparatoso choque de motos

By Daniel Chinchilla (CRHoy.com).- Un hombre de nacionalidad nicaragüense perdió la vida como consecuencia de una aparatosa colisión entre motocicletas la noche del sábado. El suceso se dio en Punta Uva en Bribrí de Limón, cuando el ahora fallecido, identificado por las autoridades judiciales como Arnulfo Barrientos, conducía su moto. Por razones que se desconocen hasta este momento, perdió […] …read more      

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[filosofiacr]

Sibö: un Dios que sabe danzar y cantar

"Yo sólo podría creer en un dios que supiese bailar. Y cuando vi a mi demonio lo encontré serio, grave, profundo y solemne. Era el espíritu de la pesadez. Todas las cosas caen por su causa. Es con la risa y no con la cólera como se mata. Adelante; matemos al espíritu de la pesadez!

He aprendido a andar; desde entonces me abandono a correr. He aprendido a volar; desde entonces no espero que me empujen para cambiar de sitio. Ahora soy ligero. Ahora vuelo. Ahora me veo por debajo de mí. Ahora baila en mí un dios." Friedrich Nietzsche; "Así Habló Zaratustra" 

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Danza alegórica de Sibö (Brunkajk)

(Pintor brunca, Melvin Gonzalez Rojas, Kamel)

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Música y lenguaje ritual en el arte verbal Bribri

Entrevista con Laura Cervantes Gamboa, Directora de la Escuela de Antropología de la Universidad de Costa Rica e investigadora de la música y el lenguaje ritual en el arte verbal Bribri.

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Kábulur i´ shù ki, en medio de este mundo inmenso

Kábulur i' shù ki Canto de doña Francisca Delgado Intérprete: Mildred Blanco

En medio de este mundo grande ¿Quién amanece? Yo amanezco en medio de este gran mundo, las flores preciosas son para mí.

El gran lagarto está en la laguna, me amenaza. El jaguar enorme me amenaza camino de la montaña.

Pero yo, como un diablo, no tengo miedo. En este gran mundo, donde las flores preciosas son para mí...

Música, canto y danza, legado sagrado de Sibö

(Pintor brunca, Melvin Gonzalez Rojas, Kamel) Ver adicionalmente:  

Las semillas de Sibö en Skawak

  Sibö: creador supremo del mundo Skawak (Teología Bribri)

  R.Borrasé-F. Una comparación entre los mitos de la creación del Suwá y del Timeo de Platón (PDF)