The Hunter Who Followed the Wrong Tracks: An Amazonian Folktale That Teaches Lessons on Greed and Awareness
In the Upper Amazon, where the forest grows thick with memory and the ground holds the marks of countless journeys, hunters were taught from childhood that tracking was more than skill. It was a language. Footprints, bent grass, broken twigs, and disturbed soil all spoke, but only to those who listened with patience and humility. Among these hunters was a