Filho de Deus, Filho de Tamakori. O padre Tastevin entre os Kanamari do médio Juruá.

In the first quarter of the last century the catholic priest Constant Tastevin lived for some seventeen years in the immense region of the middle Solimões river and adjacent rivers that the church had attributed to the care of French missionaries of the Order of the Sacred Spirit, centered in Tefé. Slowly he began to be interested in the Indians in this region and added linguistic and ethnological activities to his missionary work. His writings have been an important source of information in an otherwise little-known region, but anthropological interest has been increasing with the translation of part of his publications and the copying of unpublished material from the archives in Paris. Using a publication about his visits to the Indians and some material from the archive, this article examines how he influenced the Kanamari and, especially, how the Indians composed the identification (in a way an "identifiction") of the priest as a "cosmo-shamanic agent" that went much further then his own affirmation of his catholic religious authority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]