Body Painted at Jaguar Dance

When a person dies, his/her soul, which the Bororo call aroe,moves into the body of certain animals, such as the jaguar(the brazilian jaguar called onça pintada).

There they were painted as our jaguar, and dancing very low, moving their heads to both sides, slowly... was a beautiful moment. Their funeral "creates and re-creates Bororo society, revealing the mysteries of a society that makes of death a moment for the reaffirmation of life" (Novaes, 1992) - at Instituto Sócio Ambiental Here are some details of their cerimonial life