timaa

Updated: September 11, 2025

I asked Vicente what he thought was the cause of lightning and thunder... He said, "Timaa ichoqua," I don't know. He had never given the subject a moment's thought! It was the same with other things. I asked him who made the sun, the stars, the trees... He didn't know, and had never heard the subject mentioned amongst his tribe.

Henry Walter Bates - The Naturalist on the River Amazons