Yatañneshañ - part 2 Yato’ Achanquëll 5:20 min.

Yatañneshañ - part 2

Yato’ Achanquëll

5:20 min.

After the Great Flood, Grandfather Yos sent his grandson Yato’ Achanquëll, the Transforming Jaguar, to make order out of chaos and to protect the Yanesha people from Capueno, the Father of the Bad Jaguars. Achanquëll restored the world by leaping repeatedly from one mountain to another, across huge distances. In that process, he drained the flooded earth, channeled rivers and rebuilt mountains. One day, Achanquëll tricked Capueno and his son, the Cloud Jaguar, into a mountain-leaping contest that came to a dramatic end in the Cordillera El Sira, in the heart of Yanesha territory.

Recorded in the Central Andean Amazon of Peru, 2005-06.

Directed by Wilton Martinez, Richard Chase Smith & Espiritu Bautista

Production: Instituto del Bien Comun / Executive Producer: Richard Chase Smith

Research: Espiritu Bautista & Richard Chase Smith

Camera & Editing: Wilton Martinez / Sound: Eduardo Bryce & Daniel Kirwayo

Production Assistant: Valbina Miguel / Illustrations: Anselmo Cruz / Maps: Richard Chase Smith

Funding & Support: Ford Foundation / Distributed by the Instituto del Bien Comun

Duration: 5:20 minutes

This film is recommended for teaching about subjects including:

oral history

myth and religion

Yanesha cultural identity