WORA, The hidden Goddess is the long way of a thought that originates for Jean Monod twenty years ago.
It takes time to become a human. Everywhere. Also in the Piaroa, these Indians of Venezuela, by whom Jean Monod lived in 1968 and 1976 for long stays. He is young ethnologist, confident in the shadow of structuralism. There, they make him see it, they make him hear it to him who wants to know everything.
So when you get back? Not much: the colorful story of a rich cannibal, memories, notes, images. And yet, buried deep, his intuition of a deap knowledge installed in the heart of myths. Twenty years have passed, the time of a cycle and suddenly it can be said in words. Everything is there: the starry sky as an infinite figure of heroes, the hidden Goddess calling to the Warimé who is in the midst. And born the world, the water, the Piaro the Guahibo, the beasts, the stones. All: written in the stars, written in the memory of the "yopo" visions.
What's wrong with you? Monod reported 20 years of silence, before being rendered by the maturation of this experience to his own language. Knowledge was born from experience.
It's a beautiful story of travelers in the forest people... and it's more than a story.
It's a magisteral analysis of the myths heard by the one who knows the stars, plants and tongue... and it's more than an analysis. It is the movement of a writing to respond to Indian strangeness, in the interest of a true transmission of mythical thought.