#video #find my country house canada s Episode 5 Engsub
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00:22I've never experienced anything even comparable in terms of pain.
00:38This is an extraordinary thing to put yourself through, especially when in order to become
00:43a man in this community, you have to do it 20 times throughout your life.
00:58I'm Ed Stafford. As an explorer and survivalist, I've made a career out of mucking about in the wild.
01:05If I'm honest, I've never really grown up. So now, I've set myself a mission to see how cultures across
01:18the world navigate the messy business of becoming an adult.
01:26I believe many of us in the modern world have lost our sense of identity. But I'm hoping by immersing
01:33myself in the often extreme trials that young people face, I can figure out how these rituals make us better
01:40members of our communities.
01:42I've never experienced anything even comparable in terms of pain.
01:47By joining them on their journey, I hope I'll learn to become a better man.
01:55Maybe even grow up.
01:57Okay, he wants me to jump up. I'm going to jump up.
02:00And successfully pass my own rite of passage.
02:13I'm heading deep into the Amazon jungle to visit a people called the Satare Maui.
02:19I'm on the final leg of my journey, a two-hour boat ride up the Amazon to reach their remote
02:24village.
02:26They live on the Andira River, 80 kilometres from the nearest city.
02:33This community has a unique rite of passage ceremony that involves them putting their hands in gloves full of bullet
02:39ants.
02:42The bullet ant of all insects has the most painful sting in the world.
02:47reporting
02:57Hi!
03:00Hi!
03:00Hi I'm Ed!
03:04This is a pleasure!
03:06It Is João!
03:09Hi!
03:11See you!
03:12I'm waiting for you. Thank you.
03:58Just been given a necklace and officially welcome to the tribe. That is a good start.
04:15So I believe we're going to, like, the centre of the community. Not sure what my Portuguese
04:22is good, but it's not amazing. I'm understanding the majority, but not everything.
04:35In terms of sort of architecture, there's quite a lot of traditional houses and there's
04:40a lot of concrete structures as well. Despite their remote location, the community's position
04:49on the river means that they are open to the outside world and the modern influences that
05:21it brings.
05:24I'm, like, literally picking these tiny, little, minute ants off my ankles. But they hurt.
05:30I might be in trouble. The centrepiece of the Satarema way rite of passage is the incredibly painful
05:37tucandera ritual. Young men get stung by close to 100 bullet ants on each hand. And they
05:53have to do it at least 20 times. And one of those times is about to kick off.
06:06OK, so this is the central area where they conduct the ceremony.
06:19OK. My understanding of the ceremony today is that these guys are veterans. One of them
06:26has done it 34 times. It's all becoming a little bit real.
06:41It's been likened to walking on hot coves. Insect venom is scaled in terms of the pain from
06:49a one to a four. And the bullet ant is number four, which is obviously the highest level of
06:54pain. To put that into perspective, the sting of an average honeybee is generally just a two.
07:01It does something to the pain pathways within the body and stops the body combating that pain.
07:07So it keeps the pain pathways open longer than you would normally feel pain in any other
07:12situation in life.
07:15So I'm going to put that out.
07:32This is an extraordinary thing to put yourself through.
07:44The secret is to make movements for the body.
07:48From what I understand, it's the dancing and therefore the sweating that allows the toxins
07:52to disperse. And this is to help them manage the pain.
07:58I know the feeling that it never ìµœê³ of 15 minutes.
08:06From what I understand, my understanding will meet already next.
08:08When he's singing, we'll beat on to the music.
08:12Until I'm singing.
08:26And now his hands are shaking badly.
08:36You've literally got a veteran crying, shaking, trembling.
08:43Experiencing a level of pain that I know I have never felt in my life before.
08:49It's scary.
08:58OK, boy, are you possible here?
09:01This is the first time that I've seen bullet ants on a glove like this.
09:09So the ants have all been sort of secured into this with the abdomen facing inwards
09:15and obviously the stings are on the abdomen, which is why it's on the inside.
09:20How many?
09:21How many do you have here?
09:24More or less.
09:24No one can see, but there's more than 80.
09:2780?
09:2880 each one?
09:36Oh, my God.
09:43Taniko has been through the ritual more times than anybody else.
09:47And he will be my mentor for the week.
10:06Do women ever go through the ceremony?
10:09No.
10:14They might not have to physically deal with the pain, but the women do seem to help them.
10:19But the young men throughout the emotional ordeal, it's an extreme rite of passage.
10:33So why do they do it?
10:36So why.
10:38And we have to do it because of its way.
10:43No one way after the marriage zu be treated me
11:05I mean, this is an incredible number.
11:11Why have you done it so many times?
11:23While there's no scientific evidence
11:25to show that repeated bullet ant stings improve the immune system,
11:28I can see how it could make the boys understand
11:31and manage pain much better.
11:34Is it okay with both of you
11:36that I take part in a ceremony in a few days?
11:40And I really encourage you to give advice
11:43that you don't put your hand.
12:03I can't believe this is day one.
12:07I feel like I've experienced so much already.
12:13The truth is, the ante's been hooked.
12:16I'm under no illusions just quite how painful this is going to be.
12:21I've never experienced anything even comparable in terms of pain.
12:42That was a pretty terrible first night of sleep, I have to admit.
12:48The bullet ant ritual is still playing on my mind.
12:55It's a mix of emotions.
12:57It's a blender of butterflies and knives
12:59and all sorts of things going around my chest.
13:03I feel like the next few days are vital for me
13:06to nuance exactly my approach
13:08to how I'm going to conduct myself during the ceremony,
13:11but it's occupying every part of my being right now.
13:17I'm so aware of something coming that is enormous,
13:22absolutely enormous.
13:25I guess my spidey senses were tingling
13:27as a morning storm quickly engulfs the area.
13:30So, while we wait for it to pass,
13:33Adriana asked me to help prepare some food for their meals.
13:37You're going to mix it and then you're going to do this.
13:41The flour is very important
13:43because if you don't have the flour,
13:45no one eats it.
13:50Farine is a carbohydrate made of manioc root.
13:56And is a staple part of the Amazonian diet
13:59when there is no fish or meat to eat.
14:02It's quite flamboyant, isn't it?
14:03Yeah.
14:08Is it always the women that do this kind of job?
14:23Okay, we're done?
14:26Yes.
14:32It's ready.
14:34Excellent.
14:40Golden nuggets of pure joy.
14:46I took the moment with Adriana
14:48to find out what she thinks about the right of passage.
15:01How painful do you think it is for the man?
15:14How painful do you think it is for the man?
15:18How painful do you think it is for the man?
15:23How painful do you think it is for the man?
15:25How painful do you think it is for the man?
15:26I guess this ritual is basically the big equalizer.
15:29You didn't want him to do it initially
15:31and you've now decided that you do want him to do it.
15:34Why have you changed your mind?
15:35Because, before, he wanted to put his hand on his hand.
15:38He was 11 years old.
15:40He was very small.
15:42So, I would think that he would not be able to do the pain.
15:45Now, he decided to put his hand on his hand.
15:47So, we don't have to say to him not.
15:50Now, he said that he doesn't have anyone,
15:51but he would have to put his hand on his hand on his hand.
15:54Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:56I think if a 12-year-old can do it,
15:58I'm hoping that at 49 years old, I can do it as well.
16:02I will be together.
16:04If you need, I will help you too,
16:06and how I will help my son, right?
16:09Yeah, me too.
16:14I am touched by Adriana's promise
16:16to help me through the ceremony.
16:18At this point, with the bullet ant ritual
16:20only four days away,
16:22I'm going to take all the help I can get
16:24to overcome the pain.
16:48Jose is helping to teach me
16:50the steps needed during the right
16:52as a way to help deal with the pain.
16:59You'd think that would be easy, wouldn't it?
17:03It's because it ends on a right foot,
17:07and then it starts with a right foot.
17:10And so I'm like,
17:11I want to do my left foot.
17:23I know it's not complicated,
17:24but that's quite imbalanced.
17:30I'm not really renowned for my dancing.
17:34I think I've got it.
17:43You were really stamping hard.
17:45Was there a reason for that?
18:12I've watched him almost come apart, you know?
18:16I've watched him almost come apart, you know?
18:16I've got tears streaming down his face,
18:18body convulsing and shaking.
18:21Obviously, it's somewhat intimidating,
18:24to say the least.
18:27There's no rules or expectations
18:30surrounding crying.
18:31She does good.
18:32When we cry,
18:33it's not a shame.
18:34It's not a shame.
18:36It hurts.
18:37You have to jump.
18:38No.
18:47There is no hiding the fact that this is going to be
18:49extraordinarily more powerful than anything I would have ever felt
18:55through my nervous system before.
18:58I'm aware that my mind state is,
19:00will make all the difference.
19:02I think I just need to reset, recharge.
19:04Sleep will give me the resilience that I need.
19:15It's not a shame.
19:17And traditional preparations are in full swing
19:20for tomorrow's rite of passage.
19:22Let's go.
19:29Do the work.
19:37Forward march
19:38Third position
19:39Second time
19:40Two Vargas
19:40One
19:40One
19:40One
19:43Two
19:46Two
19:47팔
19:48Two
19:48Two
19:53It's all, it's making the gloves sort of making it at home.
19:58Yeah.
19:59Yeah.
19:59That's right.
20:05To do the back here, you do this.
20:11Here.
20:13And here.
20:15That's it.
20:24What I'm doing is cutting the little strips that end up being woven together in order to make the inner
20:29gloves.
20:30The ones that the ants are actually woven into.
20:38The outer gloves are permanent and they're held within the village hall.
20:51Gloves woven, the boys' night also need to get ourselves prepared and it's suddenly all becoming very real.
21:19The boys being painted will do the right with me.
21:22Because I always wanted to know the pain that they feel.
21:26Because my grandfather said that if we're doing anything that we want, we have to do it.
21:35Mm-hmm.
21:37Tiniko's grandson, Esau, is 12 years old.
21:41And like me, he's doing the bullet ant ritual for the first time.
22:07I can see it in your eyes.
22:15It's a big thing, right?
22:18Mm-hmm.
22:19Mm-hmm.
22:22Mm-hmm.
22:24Mm-hmm.
22:26Mm-hmm.
22:59Mm-hmm.
23:00Mm-hmm.
23:02Mm-hmm.
23:03All right.
23:04Mm-hmm.
23:05Mm-hmm.
23:10I just haven't been other than anyone.
23:11They've been there for the next time and to say...
23:12For the first time, I'm starting to feel more confident about the rite of passage.
23:17But Taniko's asked to meet.
23:42One will take a little bit of water, but the other one will take it.
23:45We don't have any conditions for anything.
23:51The pressure of the dor, we don't have to force it.
23:57We have to relax.
23:58Just to hold it.
24:00If it's slow, then the blood goes down.
24:07Then it's going to be mannered with the dor.
24:12But if the dor is alive, you want to be more than her, she will cry.
24:20In terms of the order of the ceremony,
24:22Jose indicated to me that the reason he was in so much pain
24:26was because he went first.
24:28Obviously, I'm only going to do this once in my life.
24:31Would it be okay if I went first?
24:33It's you who will have to say.
24:59That's it. There's no backing down now.
25:02I just hope I don't live to regret it.
25:12It's my last meal with the family.
25:16And Adriana has made sure we're all well-fed for the ceremony.
25:19There's the bread, the macaroni, and the flour.
25:26But it also feels a bit like a condemned man's final meal.
25:32It's hot.
25:34It's hot.
25:35It's hot.
25:37It's hot.
25:37It's hot yet.
25:42Coming up...
25:46But we can play up with this one for the first time in New York,
25:59outside of New York.
26:00I'm sure you've got outside us.
26:03I think we're more anxious, about tomorrow.
26:06Back in business?
26:09big day tomorrow it has involved a lot of mental preparation it has involved
26:16strategizing but i feel like i'm there and it may well be the last time in my life that i
26:23ever
26:23experienced that sensation so i want to experience it i want to relish in it i want to revel in
26:30it
26:30i want to explore it and um dare i say it i don't want it to be over
26:42it's the day of my rite of passage
26:47and it wouldn't be much of a ceremony without the star of the event
26:51cheniko is blowing a musical instrument at the front which is part of the
26:58ceremony in terms of attracting the the ants and drawing them out of their home
27:15the tobacco smoke and rubbing of the tree aggravates the ants and drives them out of their nest ready
27:34to sting
27:34wow that's quite a lot on the pole
27:40there's a lot of ants going into this tube
27:44huge amount every one of them has a sting considerably worse than a scorpion
27:57back in the village while the boys and i steal our nerves
28:02tiniko sedates the ants using leaves from the tapabera plant
28:24it's a skillful art and tiniko must work fast to weave the ants into the gloves before they wake up
28:47this is it the sedative has worn off and the ants are ready to attack anything and anyone that goes
28:53near them
28:55undeniably there's this surge of energy um that is rising in my body
29:06it's kind of a mesh of excitement and elation and fear
29:20i think actually in my life the closest i've come to this is um a boxing match you know somewhere
29:25where there's nowhere to hide somewhere where if you mess up it's going to be very visible to a lot
29:31of people
29:43once the gloves go on
29:44i'll be entering a world of pain
29:47that i've never felt before
29:50so the ants are going into the gloves now
29:52being tied up
29:54and there will be nothing i can do to stop it for over 12 hours
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30:59I may look composed, but the pain is excruciating.
31:06Somehow, it's almost making me feel high.
31:09I'm charged with adrenaline and completely focused on the dance.
31:19The repetitive steps are giving me something to focus on, but the searing pain is like nothing
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