Not every person today can imagine that people who have not seen not only a mobile phone, but even an ordinary car can live in quite developed countries of the world. One of these very mysterious tribes of our time is the Kayapo tribe. These are Indians who live in Brazil - in the Amazon.
Some Kayapos managed to join the fruits of civilization, visiting ordinary city shops to buy women's breeches or bathing suits, and some representatives of this Indian tribe still live on subsistence farming and themselves do not want to have anything to do with modern civilization.
One of the identifying features of the Kayapo tribe is that from an early age every Indian (Indian) must have pierced ears. Today, among the representatives of the Kayapo people, it is impossible to find a person who does not wear earrings in his ears. These earrings are often made from scrap materials. One of the common options for boys is cotton earrings. One linguistic feature is associated with the presence of pierced ears as an identification feature of the Kayapo Indians.
In the language of these Indians, the word "fool" or "fool" sounds like an analogue of the Russian-language concept of "a person who does not have holes in his ears." This concept has a double meaning. On the one hand, holes in the ears mean the natural entrances to the ears, and thus, it is given to understand that a fool is a person who does not hear others. On the other hand, by the presence of artificially made holes in the ears, the Kayapos emphasize their innocence to the category of fools.
The tribe, which is lost in the forests of the Amazon, has its own script and language. The Kayapo language belongs to the “same” language group. Today, representatives of this group include about 7,000 people living in Brazil. The mystery of the language is that some of the letters that the Kayapo used several centuries ago have not yet been accurately identified. Today they decided to replace them with Latin letters, but they cannot accurately convey the sounds that are characteristic of this strange South American language.
Today, most kayapos dress brightly enough, replacing ancient loincloths with shorts or breeches. The Kayapos paint their faces with special paints made from nuts, plants and plant resin or fruit juice.