The jágiiyi or the wall-wall ecopoetics

Abstract

The Murui-Muina poetic tradition is one of the richest and most current in the Colombian Amazon. Its philosophical categories are distanced from what the West has called nature and therefore contribute to ecopoetics. This article presents the genesis of the concept jágɨiyɨ [breath of life], its different definitions and its uses within several genres still used in the ancestral territory. Here we start from oral sources in mɨnɨ́k a, transcribed and translated into Spanish by Murui- Muina researchers. The result is a philological exercise respectful of the meanings proper to that culture.