Opening Slide Show: 14


Location: Amazonian rain forest
Images: Indigenous South Americans; trees
Comment: Original human society was as natural as the surrounding nature.
Cultural humanities: (A) Latin American creation myths include story of first humans as stick figures like trees; (B) Popol Vuh; 6th century C.E. / 1558; culture: Maya-Quiché (quiché = "people of the trees").