The ritual considered sacred by the Yanomami people had not taken place for 12 years.
The meeting brought together more than 500 indigenous people from 18 regions of Roraima and Amazonas in the Yakeplaopi community, in Palimiu, in the municipality of Alto Alegre-RR.
The celebration took place between November 9th and 11th, in a large gathering to heal the planet and ask for protection of the Yanomami land, threatened by illegal mining.
The celebration is to reinforce the connection between wisdom and ancestry.
In the Yanomami worldview, the xapiris (Xapiri for the Yanomami means health and gives rise to the indigenous shamans or shamans) are the bridge between the visible and the invisible world.
They help protect the forest land from human and non-human evils.
With annatto paintings, headdresses, ornaments, traditional songs and dances, the Yanomami celebrated and also asked for a reduction in the presence of gold miners throughout the indigenous land.
The last meeting was in 2012, at an event in the Catrimani Mission region, in Roraima.

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