‘I’m proud to be the first published Asháninka researcher’: Richar Antonio Demetrio on bees
via news.mongabay.com
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In Indigenous Asháninka belief, bees were once spirits in human form. Stories tell of a woman who enjoyed making masato, a traditional Amazonian fermented beverage. Every day, she would boil and mash the yuca, patiently fermenting it and offering the drink to whoever stopped by. Whole families would go and sit to drink it. The […]