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00:22I've never experienced anything even comparable in terms of pain.
00:29Every one of them has this thing worse than a scorpion.
00:38This is an extraordinary thing to put yourself through.
00:41Especially when in order to become a man in this community, you have to do it 20 times throughout your
00:46life.
00:47It's not a joke. If you move, you'll have to finish.
00:51It's a shame for us and for the people who are looking at it.
00:58I'm Ed Stafford. As an explorer and survivalist, I've made a career out of mucking about in the wild.
01:06If I'm honest, I've never really grown up.
01:08Look at that!
01:09So now, I've set myself a mission to see how cultures across the world navigate the messy business of becoming
01:23an adult.
01:26I believe many of us in the modern world have lost our sense of identity.
01:31But I'm hoping by immersing myself in the often extreme trials that young people face,
01:37I can figure out how these rituals make us better members 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.
01:56It's pretty honest.
01:58Okay, he wants me to jump up. I'm gonna 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.
02:27They live on the Andira River, 80 kilometers 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.
02:58Hi.
03:00Hi.
03:01Hi.
03:01Hi.
03:01Hi.
03:05Hi.
03:06Hi.
03:07Hi.
03:08Thanks.
03:10Hi.
03:11Nice to meet you.
03:14Okay.
03:17That all felt rather stiff, if I'm honest.
03:20I think the guys knew that I was coming, but I think they're a little bit nervous.
03:25My name is Edi.
03:28My name is Adriana.
03:29Adriana?
03:29Yes.
03:32Let's face it, it's not every day that a camera and a man comes into their village
03:36wanting to partake in this ceremony.
03:38So I'm hoping that things relax a little as this day goes on.
03:55Here we go.
03:58Just been given a necklace and officially welcomed to the tribe.
04:02That is a good start.
04:03Obrigado.
04:14So I believe we're going to like the centre of the community.
04:20Not sure what my Portuguese is good but it's not amazing.
04:23I'm understanding the majority but not everything.
04:36In terms of sort of architecture, there's quite a lot of traditional houses
04:40and there's a lot of concrete structures as well.
04:46Despite their remote location, the community's position on the river
04:50means that they are open to the outside world
04:52and the modern influences that brings.
04:57And we're also happy because we're really going to see
05:01for centuries and centuries that we have the culture of the people of Sateremovet.
05:12Every time I stop, I keep getting bitten by ants but they're these tiny little ones
05:16and I'm trying not to react to them at all because obviously compared to bullet ants they're absolutely nothing
05:20and yet they're infuriating because they're biting at my ankles and these guys are starting to laugh
05:24and these guys are starting to laugh because I'm like literally picking these tiny little minute ants off my ankles.
05:28But they hurt.
05:30I might be in trouble.
05:32The centrepiece of the Sateremovet rite of passage is the incredibly painful tucandera ritual.
05:42Young men get stung by close to 100 bullet ants on each hand.
05:52And they have to do it at least 20 times.
06:02And one of those times is about to kick off.
06:06OK, so this is the central area where they conduct the ceremony.
06:19OK.
06:21My understanding of the ceremony today is that these guys are veterans.
06:25One of them has done it 34 times.
06:29It's all becoming a little bit real.
06:41It's been likened to walking on hot coals.
06:45Insect venom is scaled in terms of the pain from a one to a four.
06:51And the bullet ant is number four, which is obviously the highest level of pain.
06:55To 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 situation in life.
07:16So I'm going to put that out.
07:32This is an extraordinary thing to put yourself through.
07:48From what I understand, it's the dancing and therefore the sweating that allows the toxins to disperse.
07:54And this is to help them manage the pain.
07:56I'm going to try.
07:58That's what I do.
08:05The feeling is...
08:08That's where I feel.
08:08That's the feeling.
08:09The feeling is hurting.
08:12There's a feeling.
08:13That's what I do.
08:17The feeling is so sweet.
08:18That's what I do.
08:20I am most of the feeling.
08:26and now his hands are shaking badly
08:36you've literally got a veteran crying shaking trembling experiencing a level of pain
08:45that i know i have never felt in my life before it's scary
09:01this is the first time that i've seen him put ants on a glove like this
09:09so the ants have all been sort of secured into this with their abdomen facing inwards
09:15and obviously the stings are on the abdomen and which is why it's on the inside
09:21quantos quantos ten aqui mais ou menos ninguém confere mas tem mais um como os mais oitenta
09:27porém oitenta oitenta cada um
09:43tenico has been through the ritual more times than anybody else
09:47and he will be my mentor for the week
10:14they might not have to physically deal with the pain
10:17but the women do seem to help the young men throughout the emotional ordeal
10:26it's an extreme rite of passage
10:33so why do they do it
10:34so why do they do it
10:36so why do they do it
10:39so why do they do it
11:08I mean this is an incredible number why have you done it so many times
11:22while there's no scientific evidence to show that repeated bullet ant stings improve the
11:27immune system I can see how it could make the boys understand and manage pain much better
11:34is it okay with both of you that I take part in a ceremony in a few days
12:03I can't believe this is day one
12:07feel like I've experienced so much already the truth is the auntie's been hooked I'm under no
12:17illusions just quite how painful this is going to be I've never experienced anything even comparable
12:37in terms of pain
12:42that was a pretty terrible first night of sleep after the bullet ant ritual is still playing on my mind
12:55it's a mix of emotions it's a blender of butterflies and knives and all sorts of things going around
13:01my chest I feel like the next few days are vital for me to nuance exactly my approach to how
13:08I'm
13:09going to conduct myself during the ceremony but um it's occupying every part of my being right now
13:17I'm so aware of something coming that is enormous absolutely enormous I guess my spidey senses were
13:27tingling as a morning storm quickly engulfs the area so while we wait for it to pass Adriana asked me
13:34to help prepare some food for their meals foreign is a carbohydrate made of manioc root and is a staple
13:58part of the Amazonian diet when there is no fish or meat to eat
14:01I meanä½ ä»¬ very well I don
14:02it's quite freelance isn't it is it always the women that do this kind of job?
14:11is it always the women that do this kind of
14:23job?
14:25Okay, we're done?
14:26Yes.
14:32It's ready to do.
14:34Excellent.
14:40Golden nuggets of pure joy.
14:47I took the moment with Adriana to find out what she thinks about the rite of passage.
14:52I even thought I'd put my hand on it.
14:55But my father didn't leave it.
14:57Because this ritual is especially for the man.
15:01How painful do you think it is for the man?
15:03I would think that this pain is a bit like a pain to have a baby.
15:12Yesterday I told my son, Esau,
15:14I said, now you're going to feel a pain,
15:16as I felt when I got you.
15:17But it's a bit different because the tucaneus
15:21has a lot of pain.
15:25I guess this ritual is basically the big equalizer.
15:28Yeah.
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 it,
15:38he was 11 years old.
15:40He was very small.
15:42So I thought he wouldn't be able to do the pain.
15:45Now he decided to put his hand on it,
15:47so we don't have to say to him.
15:50Now he said that he doesn't have anyone,
15:51but he would have to put his hand on it.
15:54Yeah, see, see, see.
15:55I think if a 12-year-old can do it,
15:58I'm hoping that at 49 years old,
16:00I can do it as well.
16:02I'm going to be together,
16:04and you'll need to help me too.
16:06I'll help you too,
16:06and that's how I'll help my son, right?
16:09Thank you too.
16:12Pronto.
16:14I am touched by Adriana's promise
16:16to help me through the ceremony.
16:18At this point,
16:19with the bullet ant ritual only 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 the steps needed during a 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, I want to do my left foot.
17:23I know it's not complicated, but 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?
18:13I'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, to say the least.
18:27There's no rules or expectations surrounding crying.
18:31She does good.
18:32When we cry, it's not a shame.
18:34It's not a shame.
18:36It hurts.
18:37You have to jump.
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 will make all the difference.
19:01I think I just need to reset, recharge.
19:04Sleep will give me the resilience that I need.
19:15Morning.
19:17And traditional preparations are in full swing
19:20for tomorrow's rite of passage.
19:29I'm going to go to the floor.
19:30Do it work?
19:36Well I'm taking this further.
19:39Can I take it slow?
19:42Oh, I know.
19:47Oh, no, no, no, no.
19:53So it's making the gloves sort of making it at home.
19:58Yeah, that's right.
20:05To do the back here, you do this.
20:11Here, and here.
20:24So what I'm doing is cutting the little strips that end up being woven together in order
20:28to make the inner gloves, the 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
20:56all becoming very real.
21:19The boys being painted will do the right with me.
21:37Taniko's grandson, Esau, is 12 years old.
21:40And like me, he's doing the bullet ant ritual for the first time.
22:05Are you nervous about doing it for the first time?
22:07Yes.
22:08Yes.
22:08And it's my first time.
22:10It's a lot for me.
22:11Yes.
22:15It's a lot of things, right?
22:18Yes.
22:18Yes.
22:18Mm-hmm.
22:27Mm-hmm.
22:30I'm very nervous.
22:35I see your... mom or your dad giving any last minute advice.
22:39They gave me that it's not for me to cry on the bed and cry.
22:45Because that makes the singer sick.
22:51She can only cry when she's already without the bed.
22:59Okay?
23:01Yes.
23:02You're good?
23:10My body is ready.
23:11And for the first time, I'm starting to feel more confident about the rite of passage.
23:17But Taniko's asked to meet.
23:40I'm going to sleep with my throat.
23:41I'll have to be a bit of water.
23:43But more than one will do.
23:44The hands of us haven't had to feel anything.
23:51The pressure of the dor, we don't have to force it.
23:57We have to relax.
23:58It's just to stop, and if it's slow, then the blood comes and falls.
24:07Then the pain goes on.
24:12But if the pain is alive, you want to be more than her, then she will cry.
24:20In terms of the order of the ceremony, Jose indicated to me that the reason he was in so much
24:26pain was because he went first.
24:28Obviously, I'm only going to do this once in my life. Would it be okay if I went first?
24:33It's you who will have to say this.
24:36It's not a joke. If you're going to move, you'll have to finish.
24:41If we call you, it's for you to go right there.
24:45And if we call you, you don't want to be scared, you're going to be angry for us.
24:52And for the people who are watching.
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 rice, the macaroni, the bread.
25:26But it also feels a bit like a condemned man's final meal.
25:32It's hot.
25:33It's hot, it's hot, it's hot.
25:41It's hot.
25:42Isayu, how do you feel today?
25:45Now that I've got more anxiety, it's tomorrow, I'm going to put my hand on the first time.
25:57And the Lord?
25:59I'm ready. I think so.
26:03I think so.
26:09Big day tomorrow. It has involved a lot of mental preparation, it has involved strategizing, but I feel like I'm
26:18there.
26:20And it may well be the last time in my life that I ever experienced that sensation.
26:24So I want to experience it, I want to relish in it, I want to revel in it, I want
26:31to explore it.
26:34And 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.
26:51Chinico is blowing a musical instrument at the front, which is part of the ceremony in terms of attracting the
27:00ants 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 to
27:21sting.
27:34Wow, that's quite a lot on the pole.
27:40There's a lot of ants going into this tube.
27:45Huge amount.
27:46Every one of them has a sting.
27:49Considerably worse than a scorpion.
27:56Back in the village, while the boys and I steal our nerves,
28:02Chinico sedates the ants using leaves from the tapabera plant.
28:24It's a skillful art, and Chinico 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 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 a boxing match, you know, somewhere where
29:26there's nowhere to hide, somewhere where if you mess up it's going to be very visible to a lot of
29:31people.
29:43Once the gloves go on, I'll be entering a world of pain that I've never felt before.
29:50So the ants are going into the gloves now, being tied up.
29:54And there will be nothing I can do to stop it for over 12 hours.
29:59I'm going into the gloves.
30:05This round.
30:08It's pain.
30:09It's pain.
30:12It's pain.
30:14It's pain too.
30:14It's pain.
30:19It's pain.
30:24It's pain.
30:27It's pain.
30:27It's pain.
30:28can be a poet that was a can be a poet that may be a poet that may be a
30:33poet
30:33a mythoponanty cut in the area me put it to cut in the area me ita me ita
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
31:25I've ever felt before.
31:47It's almost making me feel high.
31:55It's almost making me feel high.
32:07ORGAN PLAYS
32:26I've never experienced anything to this intensity in my physicality.
32:33Literally, like, my hands are on fire, right in the heart of a fire.
32:55O meu pensamento era dele colocar e mandar tirar, né?
33:01Mas não. Ele resistiu positivo. A preparação dele foi muito boa.
33:23O meu pensamento era dele.
33:45Se é tão difÃcil para mim, um jovem jovem, eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
34:00Se é tão difÃcil para mim, um jovem jovem, eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
34:21O meu pensamento era um jovem, eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
34:36O meu pensamento era um jovem, eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
34:41O meu pensamento era um jovem, eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
34:44O meu pensamento era um jovem.
34:48O meu pensamento era um jovem.
34:49O meu pensamento era um jovem.
34:56O meu pensamento era um jovem, eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
35:13Eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
35:39O meu pensamento era um jovem.
35:41Eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
35:42Eu não sei como os garotos vão lidar.
35:43O meu pensamento era um jovem.
35:45O meu pensamento era um jovem para a sala de viagem, para que possamos ser closely monitorados.
35:48O meu pensamento era um jovem.
36:08contemplate right now. Hats off to these people who do it 20 times. Crikey. What a
36:16extraordinary way of facilitating them to turn from young boys into adults. A
36:25little bit of panic that the pain is still as bad as it is. That I'm just
36:30trying to calm within myself. It's kind of the darkest part for me now.
36:52As I put my hand in the gloves first and for a longer time I received more venom.
36:58Now I'm struggling to cope and my team are concerned.
37:29I'm in circulation, yes?
37:32Yes.
37:33For the damage and the inflammation.
37:39It's been four hours that I don't have pain. So I'm worried about it.
37:46Okay.
38:11After taking in fluids and being carefully monitored by the doctor, I'm finally
38:16back to the hospital.
38:17I'm going to go back to my feet. But the pain was way more traumatic than I had ever anticipated.
38:25It's kind of changed from burning fire to they've been smashed with a sledgehammer.
38:39In the dance, I just sort of found myself next to another guy whose hands were completely messed up.
38:45So we couldn't kind of link arms.
38:49And this quite young girl called Fran came up and linked arms.
38:54And there was just something so special about the fact that she'd noticed and that she cared enough.
39:03I think their role is vital, absolutely vital.
39:08And it's funny, isn't it? You go through all that pain and the thing that makes you close to tears
39:13is the care that you've been presented with and offered.
39:26Adriana, I mean, literally constantly helping me, feeding me, binding my hands.
39:41Adriana, I mean, it's the same.
39:42I don't have to worry about it.
39:49Don't cry.
39:52Don't cry. Don't cry.
39:55Don't cry. Don't cry.
40:05I've never been presented with so much care and love
40:09and I would never have got through that ceremony
40:12if it wasn't for you all.
40:13I'll never forget it.
40:20I will remember it.
40:31Oh, my God.
40:31Oh, my God.
40:35Well, it's very good you and Eric,
40:37and we,
40:39it's,
40:39it's,
40:40it's,
40:41it's,
40:41it's,
40:42it's,
40:42it's,
40:44it's,
40:45it's,
40:46it's,
41:01I think,
41:02I think,
41:03I came here thinking that this ceremony was all going to be about proving how tough it was.
41:08You know,
41:09proving how I could do this on my own.
41:13and uh it's not true is it it's not true of the ceremony but it's also not true in general
41:19it's like you don't have to do it well on your own you can let me let people in
41:27you can let them help you
41:34it's beautiful it's absolutely beautiful
41:52okay and don't think okay i feel a bit buttered and bruised this morning if i'm honest
42:01that level of pain for that amount of time just almost doesn't feel natural it
42:05i think i'm starting to get an understanding of how rites of passage are really essential to
42:13communities because on the face of it they look like things that allow young boys to show off
42:18to prove that they're tough so they can become a man
42:34the ceremony last night changed my opinion on that
42:38it was about the community coming together it's the it's the very soul of the community and it's
42:43what pulls everything together i've been fighting my whole life fighting to prove that i'm tough
42:50enough to survive on my own and the inherent epiphany of last night seemed to be that you don't have
42:56to
42:57you can come into a village and seven days later they're calling you part of their family and and
43:02giving you so much love and support that you're reduced to tears i mean that's i don't i don't know
43:07many things in life more powerful than that really sounds like a cartoon anvil falling from the sky
43:37i don't know
43:39i don't know
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