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This is my 4th or 5th read of this fascinating memoir by the author, and the facets of his life with, and the lives of, the tribe in the Amazon basin to which he is assigned as a Christian missionary...
pg.142: "...if all Piraha myths must exemplify immediacy of experience, then the scriptures <> world religions, such as the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, and so on, could not be translated....no living eyewitness."
— Nov 17, 2021 03:29AM
pg.142: "...if all Piraha myths must exemplify immediacy of experience, then the scriptures <> world religions, such as the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, and so on, could not be translated....no living eyewitness."

