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The animal world:
The animal world is equally balanced by the human world. “Titokon of the village of Erma had an extraordinary magic power in hunting crocodiles. By selling the skins ..... he obtained many valuable goods, and his prestige in the village rose ... but one day, his son died by drowning.
Titokon immediately understood that the soul of a crocodile he had killed in the past had taken his revenge, carrying off his son. For many years he stopped hunting crocodiles. When he perceived that the animosity had ceased ... he started hunting again, with great luck. Sometimes later, his nephew died: it was clear to him that the hostility had never ended. Titokon does not hunt crocodiles any longer.” (Sowada, “Primary Asmat Religions and Philosophical Concepts”, EMBODIED SPIRITS: Ritual Carvings of the Asmat, Schneebaum, 1990, p. 69.)
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